Time travel, doppelgangers and a lady in red – take the Thursday quiz

The quiz master is away, but do not fret. Before he left, a cache of documents written in invisible ink were entrusted to a secret operative in the Guardian offices, containing 14 questions on topical trivia and general knowledge. As usual, there’s a hidden Doctor Who reference to spot, a picture of our beloved Kate Bush, and one round that has anagrams in it just to be annoying. Have fun. There are no prizes, but let us know how you get on in the comments.

The Thursday quiz, No 20

1. SPACE, THE FINAL FRONTIER: Nasa has completed the final tests of the space telescope that will replace the Hubble. What is it called?

   1. James Webb telescope

   2. James Taylor telescope

   3. James McCrimmon telescope

   4. James Lovell telescope

2. EARLY SCIENCE FICTION: In the HG Wells story The Time Machine, future society has evolved into two competing groups – the Eloi and the…?

   1. The Mogwai

   2. The Morlocks

   3. The Mowgli

   4. The Rees-Moggs

3. MUSIC: Which artist this week released a report they had commissioned on the climate impact of live music, and called for the UK government to formulate a plan to tackle it?

   1. Peter Gabriel

   2. Thom Yorke

   3. Massive Attack

   4. Kate Bush

4. ANAGRAM TIME: Which of these people have NOT been president of the United States?

   1. Dingoes Wherewit

   2. Chilly Non Trial

   3. Adrenal Groan

   4. Rim My Car Jet

5. TRUE OR FALSE: There are three different men called Boris Vishnevsky standing against each other for election in the same municipal contest later this month in St Petersburg, Russia.

   1. True

   2. False

6. GEOGRAPHY: What is the capital city of Mali?

   1. Banjul

   2. Bujumbura

   3. Bangui

   4. Bamako

7. SCIENCE CORNER: Lithium metal reacts slowly with water to form a colourless solution of lithium hydroxide (LiOH) and hydrogen gas (H2). The resulting solution is…

   1. Basic

   2. Acidic

   3. Neutral

8. SPORT: The Tokyo Paralympics have sadly come to an end. Which of these combinations of year and host city is not correct for a past Paralympics Games?

   1. 1980 – Moscow

   2. 1988 – Seoul

   3. 2000 – Sydney

9. WHO SAID IT: Which glamorous film star said: “Look your best - who said love is blind?”

   1. Marilyn Monroe

   2. Grace Kelly

   3. Jayne Mansfield

   4. Mae West

10. EYE KNOW WHO YOU ARE: Who is this?

    1. Emma Watson

    2. Charlotte Ritchie

    3. Phoebe Waller-Bridge

    4. Miranda Hart

11. WHAT THE HELL IS IT THIS TIME: That's a Sparks song that imagines a busy god vexed every time someone prays to them because of something trivial like they've cracked up their car. But that’s not important right now. In the New Testament, in which letter attributed to St Paul does he say: "For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord."

    1. Romans

    2. Corinthians I

    3. Corinthians II

    4. Galatians

12. POETRY CORNER: The internet has made the poem that begins "I have eaten / the plums / that were in / the icebox" one of the most famous poems of all time. But who wrote it?

    1. William Carlos Williams

    2. Robert Frost

    3. Langston Hughes

    4. Robert Hayden

13. THE LADY IN RED: William Hogarth’s 1742 painting of a woman clad in red damask and draped in diamonds will be one of the stars of the show at a new exhibition of his work at the Tate Britain. Who is she?

    1. Emma, Lady Hamilton, the lover of Lord Nelson

    2. Mary Edwards of Kensington, thought to be the richest woman in the world at the time

    3. Lady Mary Montagu, who attempted to introduce the concept of smallpox vaccination to Britain

    4. Diane Davison, the spouse of Chris de Burgh

14. ENSEMBLE CASTS: You love this round. Which British show included these three actors as regular supporting cast members? Julia Sawalha, Jane Horrocks and June Whitfield

    1. Absolutely Fabulous

    2. Doctor Who

    3. Press Gang

    4. Jonathan Creek

Solutions

1:A - It is named after James E Webb, who was the administrator of Nasa from 1961 to 1968 and played an integral role in the Apollo programme that landed on the moon. It consists of a 6.5-metre mirror and a tennis-court-sized sunshield and work first started on it in 1996 with a plan to launch in 2007, a timescale of delay I'll remind my editor next time I'm late on a deadline., 2:B - The Morlocks are described as ape-like troglodytes who live in darkness underground and surface only at night, suggesting that HG Wells had at some point met teenagers. The picture of Sylvester McCoy isn't the hidden Doctor Who reference, by the way, it is never as easy as that., 3:C - Massive Attack’s Rob Del Naja, otherwise known as 3D, criticised the government for not doing enough to support the industry to reduce carbon emissions. He said: “Where’s the industrial plan for the scale of the transformation that’s required for the UK economy and society? It doesn’t seem to exist. The live music industry, especially after Brexit, is so important to national identity and self-esteem. It’s one of the few areas you could describe as genuinely world-class. But where is the government planning to support the rate of adaption we’re going to need to hit compatibility with the Paris agreement?", 4:B - She might have won the popular vote in the 2016 US election by some distance, but Hillary Clinton did not end up as president. Your other options were Dwight Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter, and if you didn't laugh at "Rim My Car Jet" instead of moaning about anagrams, you have no soul., 5:A - It is true. To his surprise, Boris Vishnevsky, a senior member of the liberal Yabloko party, has found that not one but two opponents have legally changed their name to his and stood against him in an apparent bid to confuse voters. Not only that, but at the weekend an election poster was unveiled which showed that the two newly-named Vishnevskys have both altered their appearances to look like doppelgängers of the real thing., 6:D - Located on the Niger River, the city has an estimated population of 2.7 million. Banjul is capital of Gambia, Bujumbura is in Burundi and Bangui is capital of the Central African Republic., 7:A - A basic solution is an aqueous solution containing more OH-ions than H+ions. In other words, it is an aqueous solution with a pH greater than 7. So now you know., 8:A - It was actually only from Seoul onwards in 1988 that the bidding process for the Olympics and Paralympics was unified and hosting one meant hosting the other. While the 1980 Summer Olympics were boycott-stricken in Moscow, the 1980 Paralympics took place in Arnhem in the Netherlands., 9:D - West was an outrageous figure for the time, often clashing with authorities, once quipping: "I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.", 10:C - No fleas on you!, 11:A - Yes, that is Romans chapter 6 verse 23. Seven of the letters in the New Testament are generally believed to be genuinely by St Paul, and you can tell by his face that Ron from Sparks thinks you should have known that., 12:A - As well as being a poet, William Carlos Williams was a physician practising both paediatrics and general medicine. And he liked plums., 13:B - Edwards was a wealthy Englishwoman who disowned her husband to stop him frittering away her fortune. “She trod her own path and contravened the social mores of the time,” said Alice Insley, assistant curator at the London gallery. Edwards became an important patron of the arts and enjoyed a close friendship with Hogarth. Some of his most important works were commissioned by her. The painting will be on display at Tate Britain in a major new show from November., 14:A - That's Saffy, Bubbles and Mother. Julia Sawalha was also in Press Gang and Jonathan Creek, and was sort of in Doctor Who, playing companion Emma in 1999 spoof charity episode the Curse Of Fatal Death, but AbFab is the correct answer here.

Scores

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