Rolling Stones, wrong boarding passes and drunk tourists – take the Thursday quiz | Life and style

This week the Thursday quiz starts off quite sombre, serious, political and topical, and gets more whimsical as it progresses. A bit like the progression of Doctor Who from the early days of William Hartnell to the technicolour of Colin Baker’s costume in the 1980s. If that reference has passed you by, never mind, maybe you will spot that the categories are all song titles again this week. But whose songs? Have fun, and let us know how you get on in the comments. And advance warning – the quiz master is away for the next few weeks so the quizzes are going to be pre-written and … weird.

The Thursday quiz, No 121

  1. 1.COULD IT HAPPEN TO ME?: A record number of people are waiting for NHS treatment in England. How many?

  2. 2.LOVE IS THE DRUG: Law enforcement officers have raided Swatch stores at 11 shopping malls looking for timepieces bearing what it called “LGBT elements”. Where?

    Swatches

  3. 3.MANIFESTO: What was the name of the Ecuadorian presidential candidate shot dead as he left a campaign event in Quito?

    The murdered candidate

  4. 4.SEA BREEZES: In a humiliating climbdown for the UK government on its proposed policy of housing asylum seekers on a barge, the first inhabitants of the Bibby Stockholm had to be evacuated after traces were found of what?

    Bibby Stockholm

  5. 5.EDITIONS OF YOU: Statues of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards have been unveiled in their home town. Where?

    Mick Jagger and Keith Richards

  6. 6.EDITIONS OF YOU (SLIGHT RETURN): Willow, the official dog of the Thursday quiz, felt sad when she heard that an actor turned up at a fan’s art show in Margate that was all about him, only to find it was shut. Who?

    Willow, the official dog of the Guardian Thursday quiz

  7. 7.THE SPACE BETWEEN: Russia has launched Luna-25, its first attempt to land something on an object away from the Earth since 2011. What was that 2011 mission, which crashed back to Earth after its rocket boosters failed to ignite, called?

    Luna-25

  8. 8.CHANCE MEETING: Local speculation as to who was responsible for it ranged from art pranksters to aliens when what appeared on the clifftops on the North Downs Way in Kent last week?

    Doctor Who

  9. 9.FOR YOUR PLEASURE: Johanna Spyri wrote which famous novel with a titular female protagonist (not pictured)?

    Library

  10. 10.TRASH: Which foreign minister had to abandon a trip to the Indo-Pacific after their government plane (not pictured) twice had to return to Abu Dhabi due to technical difficulties?

    Paper aeroplane

  11. 11.SAME OLD SCENE: Which Australian politician revealed they had been at a bar that was inexplicably showing the WRONG France v Australia game during their Fifa Women’s World Cup quarter-final, thus missing one of the greatest penalty shootout dramas of all time?

    Australia – France

  12. 12.A SONG FOR EUROPE: Two US tourists were found sleeping, having hopped over a barrier at which major European tourist attraction?

    EU flag

  13. 13.MORE THAN THIS: Ryanair charged an elderly couple, bless them, how much to reprint their boarding cards after they’d accidentally checked in to the wrong flight?

    Notes

  14. 14.RE-MAKE/RE-MODEL: Boffins have measured people’s brainwaves while playing a classic song from the 1970s to them, then somehow reconstructed the song from the recording. Which iconic song did they use for the experiment?

    A brain scan

  15. 15.OUT OF THE BLUE: Ghent University is offering an English literature course based around the output of which musician?

    Music

  • If you really do think there has been an egregious error in one of the questions or answers, feel free to email [email protected], or just go on social media and have a right royal moan up about it.

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