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Ralph Fiennes has recently been complaining about trigger warnings, but at the Thursday quiz we think it is only fair to warn you that this week the quiz includes general knowledge, quirky pop culture, computer studies, obscure facts, and two pictures of dogs, but starts with Liz Truss again. It is just for fun, but let us know how you got on in the comments.The Thursday quiz, No 1481.Thursday quiz favourite Liz Truss is attending CPAC in Washington DC and blamed the “deep state” for her short tenure as prime minister. But what does CPAC stand for?Reveal2.Ridley Scott is apparently…

Ben Stokes made two changes to his XI ahead of the must-win fourth Test against India starting in Ranchi on Friday. It looked like a reaction, not an overreaction, to drafting Ollie Robinson and Shoaib Bashir on what he expected to be a rotating pitch.Mark Wood and Rehan Ahmed were among the players withdrawn from Rajkot’s 434-run defeat in which the tourists trailed 2-1 with 1-0 remaining Stokes put the former’s absence in the next two games down to his heavy workload and a desire to ensure he was able to continue playing in the side. Maximum speed. While 20-year-old…

Your home is your castle, but how can you make it look like one on a budget? Interior designers share the bargain renovation hacks they are most proud of in their own homes.Source everything for free or very cheaply“My favourite price is free, and my second favourite price is cheap,” says Banjo Beale, interior designer, author and the 2022 winner of the BBC’s Interior Design Masters. Originally from Australia, he has lived on the Isle of Mull for 10 years after he ended up there while backpacking. He sources a lot on the island: “People are really conscious of throwing…

“IThis is the holy grail of sports. ” Antoine Dupont declared on the French team’s social media channel last week. As he begins his quest for Olympic gold, the Toulouse scrum-half swapped this year’s Six Nations for the World Rugby Sevens Series, a tournament for which he has been preparing since the turn of the year.The 2021 World Footballer of the Year will make his highly-anticipated Rugby Sevens debut in Vancouver on Friday night and is scheduled to play in the Los Angeles leg of the tour next weekend. France will begin play against the United States at BC Field…

Port TalbotPort Talbot recently returned to the spotlight, when Tata Steel announced electrification and layoffs last month and the BBC broadcast Michael Sheen’s television series The Way this week. Politicians and foreign companies can shut down entire towns with impressive equanimity when the factories they are mothballing and the lives they are destroying are invisible. Port Talbot, however, would seem hard to ignore. As you approach on the M4, which undulates gamely on stilts across the skyline, the view of the vast Tata Steel plant is bracing. The hills on the inland side are squat, solid-looking lumps but greenish and…

IIf you’re new to the Airbender universe, Netflix’s adventure drama Avatar: The Last Airbender is a live-action remake of the popular Nickelodeon animated series of the same name that premiered in 2005. It’s related to the 2010 M Night Shyamalan-related film The Last Airbender – which was also a live-action version of the animated film – but none of the Airbender properties have anything to do with the highest-grossing film of all time, Avatar, The film’s copyright lawyers secured the simple one-word title. wanted. Being forced to add a colon and a clunky subtitle to its title didn’t stop Avatar:…

Videos appearing to show groups of men stripped of their clothing in near-freezing temperatures and being forced back from the Serbian border into North Macedonia are evidence of escalating mistreatment of migrants at European borders, according to human rights groups.Two videos shown to the Guardian by Legis, a North Macedonian NGO, show a line of semi-naked men on a stretch of road near the Serbian-North Macedonian border.Legis says that the videos were filmed by a local person near the village of Lojane, close to the Serbian border, and handed to them on 10 February. The Guardian has not independently verified…

Australian freestyle motocross star Jayden Archer has died, reportedly in a crash while practicing the tricks that made him famous.Archer, 27, is the first motocross rider to land a triple backflip at the Nitro World Games in Brisbane in November 2022. Soon after, he proposed to his girlfriend.According to ESPN, he was killed while practicing the technique at training in his hometown of Melbourne.Archer is a star in the Australian motocross community. In 2011, at the age of 15, he signed a sponsorship deal with Powersports Kawasaki and became the youngest person in history to record a motorcycle backflip of…

The collapse of sand holes, like the one that killed a five-year-old Indiana girl who was digging with her brother on a Florida beach, is an under-recognized danger that kills and injures several children a year around the country.Sloan Mattingly died Tuesday afternoon at Lauderdale-by-the-Sea’s beach when a 4-5ft-deep (1-1.5-metre) hole collapsed on her and her seven-year-old brother, Maddox. The boy was buried up to his chest, but the girl was fully covered. Video taken by a bystander shows about 20 adults trying to dig her out using their hands and plastic pails, but the hole kept collapsing on itself.Lauderdale-by-the-Sea,…

A U.S. spokesman mocked Russian President Vladimir Putin for gifting North Korean leader Kim Jong Un a Russian car, accusing Moscow of violating U.N. resolutions.”President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin presented Kim Jong Un with a Russian-made car for his personal use,” North Korean state media said on Tuesday.Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov later confirmed the gift, saying it was an Aurus, a full-size limousine used by Putin.”When North Korea’s leader [North Korea] At Vostok, he saw the car, Putin showed it to him personally, and like many people, Kim Jong-un liked the car,” Peskov said.”So the decision was…