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The Thursday quiz always thought it was written with an incredible lack of self-awareness, but then it was unwittingly exposed to the new book by Liz Truss, and discovered that you could take it to a whole new level. Anyway, welcome to literally the best weekly internet quiz in the world, which would have an even higher audience if only the anti-repeated-in-joke coalition would leave it be. Sixteen questions face you this week, with varying degrees of topicality, obscurity and guessability. There are no prizes, but let us know how you get on in the comments.The Thursday quiz, No 1561.A…

wattThere was plenty of interest from Jeff Rene-Adelaide last year when he was looking for a new club. But the former Arsenal teenage prodigy, who joined Lyon for €25 million in 2019 after reviving his career at Angers, has been asked the same question.”A lot of teams wanted me last summer, but the question was whether I was really ready to play a full season,” he said. “I can understand they were scared after I got injured because I only played a few games and didn’t start a lot.”After two ACL injuries ruined Reine Adelaide’s chances at Lyon, he has…

Qatar re-evaluating role as mediatorQatar says it is reassessing its role as a mediator between Israel and Hamas, according to comments made by the gulf state’s prime minister.“Qatar is in the process of a complete re-evaluation of its role,” prime minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani told a Doha news conference, according to Agence France- Presse.“There is exploitation and abuse of the Qatari role,” he said, adding that Qatar had been the victim of “point-scoring” by “politicians who are trying to conduct election campaigns by slighting the State of Qatar”.Qatar, with the US and Egypt, has been engaged…

Durham University chief executive Tim Bostock said he was ‘delighted’ The ECB decided to grant the county the rights to host a professional women’s team after beating stiff competition from neighboring Yorkshire.Tier 1 counties spent two-and-a-half months vying for the right to host one of eight new professional “tier 1” women’s teams, In March, they submitted their bid to a panel that included former FA director of the women’s professional game Kelly Simmons and Lewes FC chief executive Maggie Murphy. . Durham, Essex, Hampshire, Lancashire, Nottinghamshire, Somerset, Surrey and Warwickshire were officially approved as host cities at an ECB board…

Dubai is wrestling with the aftermath of extraordinary torrential rains that flooded the desert city, with residents describing harrowing stories of spending the night in their cars, and air passengers enduring chaotic scenes at airports.Up to 259.5mm (10.2in) of rain fell on the usually arid country of the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday, the most since records began 75 years ago. The state-run WAM news agency called the rains on Tuesday “a historic weather event” that surpassed “anything documented since the start of data collection in 1949”.As the sun returned on Wednesday, along with it came stories of residents stuck…

Quentin Tarantino has reportedly abandoned plans for The Critic, his tenth and final film.Deadline reported Thursday that an anonymous source close to Tarantino confirmed the news, reporting that Tarantino “simply changed his mind” about making “The Critic” and would “re- Start working on the final film.”The 61-year-old director has long said that he will only make 10 films before retiring. He stated that he considered “Bill Bill” to be a movie, even though it was split into two parts, and that he did not consider his first project, an amateur film titled “My Best Friend’s Birthday” ( never issued) are…

Russia appears prepared to create “environmental havoc” by sailing unseaworthy oil tankers through the Baltic Sea in breach of all maritime rules, the Swedish foreign minister has said.Speaking to the Guardian during his first visit to London since Sweden became a Nato member, Tobias Billström called for new rules and enforcement mechanisms to prevent the ageing and uninsured Russian shadow fleet causing an environmental catastrophe. About half of all Russian oil transported by sea the passes through the Baltic Sea and Danish waters, often operating under opaque ownership, and using international waters to try to avoid scrutiny.The fleet generates a…

Former Australian cricket captain Meg Lanning struggled with an “unhealthy relationship” with exercise and diet, leading to her unexpected retirement. Lanning, who calls herself private, finally decided to share the reasons why she ended her international career last November at the age of 31.The Victoria Queen took a long break from cricket in 2022, returning in February 2023 to lead Australia to the Twenty20 World Cup title, but suddenly pulled out of last year’s Ashes due to undisclosed medical reasons.Lanning revealed she was grappling with an identity crisis outside of cricket that even her teammates and closest friends didn’t know…

It was a night when Bayern Munich lived up to their assertions that, when the Champions League comes around, they are an altogether different beast. Perhaps the obituaries were written too quickly for a troubled superpower that, on this evidence, retains the muscle memory of serial winners. They are two games from visiting Wembley in search of a seventh continental title and the manner in which a depleted side put the dampeners on Arsenal suggests Thomas Tuchel may yet sign off from his fleeting tenure by making an irresistible point.This was, nonetheless, a missed opportunity for Mikel Arteta and his…

Philippine and U.S. troops will conduct their first military drills outside the Southeast Asian nation’s territorial waters, a move that China says will only make the South China Sea more insecure.The annual “shoulder-to-shoulder” exercise will be held from April 22 to May 10 and will involve 16,700 soldiers to simulate the recovery of enemy-occupied islands facing Taiwan and the South China Sea.Philippine Army Col. Michael Logic, who is overseeing the exercise, said it will be the first maritime exercise to be conducted outside Philippine territorial waters.In response to the planned exercise, China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs warned that the Philippines…