Thursday news quiz: a PM’s nose, a pop star’s clothes, and a kitten with too many toes

Test yourself on topical news trivia, pop culture and general knowledge every Thursday.

How will you fare? Every now and then the Thursday quiz gets involved in a flap, as it did last week with “birb”-gate.

After a sustained campaign lasting at least two weeks, subeditors finally relented and allowed the quiz to call our feathered friends “birbs” – only for half the comment section to revolt against the indignity of modern internet parlance.

Still, that is nothing compared with the time a reader complained that the quiz using the phrase “baby cows” was unbecoming of a broadsheet newspaper.

Anyway, 15 questions on news, general knowledge and obscure trivia await, and no “birbs” were harmed in the process.

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