Orca headwear, animal escapes and bear mind surgical procedure – take the Thursday quiz

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Orca headwear, animal escapes and bear mind surgical procedure – take the Thursday quiz

One of many staples of the Thursday quiz is an amusing animal story, to the extent that common commenters typically counsel they memorise any ridiculous animal-related shenanigans showing within the Guardian on the sure foundation they’ll seem. Why not ease your self into the vacation interval with the ultimate Thursday quiz earlier than Christmas, which is all about a few of our favorite animal tales from all through 2024. The quiz grasp has already put his toes up for the yr, however needs you all one of the best for a cheerful Christmas. Tell us the way you get on within the feedback – and make sure to come again for a particular Boxing Day Thursday quiz subsequent week.

The Thursday quiz, No 189

1.What have orcas been sporting on their heads once more?
2.Dame Judi Dench has stated some wildly eclectic issues this years, together with that her parrot calls her what?
3.Which magnificent beast (not pictured), cruelly given to King Louis XV and placed on show in Versailles (pictured), is on mortgage on the Science Museum in London
4.A deer (not pictured) in McBride, a mountain group in British Columbia, has been noticed sporting what, and no one is aware of the place it received it from?
5.What was the identify of this social media star squirrel euthanised by New York authorities as a rabies threat?
6.Right here is Willow, the official canine of the Guardian Thursday quiz, “serving to” compile the quiz. She needs to know what’s the identify of the newborn penguin who received well-known as a result of he weighed greater than each his mother and father put collectively?
7.True or false – the wrinkles on an elephant’s trunk reveal whether or not will probably be left-trunked or right-trunked (the elephant equal of being right-handed or correctly-handed)?
8.That is Otis, a stunning visitor canine that the quiz grasp met down the pub whereas writing the quiz. Otis needs to know what it was that an Isle of Wight zoo was compelled to deploy tracker canines and drones to recapture?
9.Feathers McGraw (not pictured), the best cinema villain of all time, returns to our screens on Christmas Day. Which actor voiced him for his 1993 debut in Wallace & Gromit: the Improper Trousers
10.What recurring pest have authorities in New York began giving contraception to?
11.When Keir Starmer moved into Downing Avenue his household received a brand new kitten. What’s it known as?
12.A stunning capybara (however not the particular one within the image) was residing her finest life for every week having escaped from a zoo in Shropshire. What was her identify?
13.Knowledge the Laysan albatross has laid an egg in Hawaii. How previous is she?
14.This brown bear turned the primary within the UK to have mind surgical procedure, after an MRI scan revealed he had hydrocephalus, a buildup of fluid within the mind. What’s his identify?
15.And eventually right here is Willow once more, sitting with the quiz grasp and his official Sparks Christmas jumper however, in line with Clement Clarke Moore, when it ’twas the night time earlier than Christmas, no creature was stirring, not even …

Should you actually do assume there was an egregious error in one of many questions or solutions – and may present your working and are completely 100% constructive you aren’t making an attempt to factcheck a joke – you may complain about it within the feedback beneath. Why not chill your self out and revel in a Wombling Merry Christmas as a substitute?

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