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It is the last topical Thursday quiz of the year! Don’t fret, there will be quizzes over the next few weeks, but they will be pre-written without the news elements. You will still love them, we are sure. So today, for the last time in 2022, you face 15 questions of varying difficulty that are either vaguely topical or general knowledge in nature. There are no prizes, but let us know how you got on in the comments.

The Thursday quiz, No 86

1.BYE THEN: Kyrsten Sinema decided US politics would be too boring if a party were actually able to pass legislation in the Senate easily, so has quit the Democratic caucus to become an independent just as the Democratic party won a majority. Which state does she represent?

Kyrsten Sinema

2.FRESHLY MINTED: The first coins to feature King Charles III are being distributed and going into circulation. What denomination are they?

King Charles III

3.END OF THE LINE: Boeing has produced its last ever 747 (pictured). But when did the first one take flight?

The last Boeing 747

4.I DON’T FEEL A DAY OLDER THAN A 100: Which country is to scrap its traditional ageing system where everyone is born aged one and adds a year every 1 January, making nearly everyone in the country suddenly younger?

Birthday cake

5.HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Speaking of birthdays, it would have been Nero’s birthday today, the scurrilous old fiddler that he was. But what was his name at birth?

Nero

6.IT’S A DOG’S LIFE: This is Willow, the official dog of the Guardian’s Thursday quiz. She is worried because she thinks she has forgotten which city is capital of Namibia. And also because of the snow. Can you help her with the capital city at least?

Willow the dachshund in the snow

7.IT’S COMING HOME: England did not win the World Cup. But Kyle Walker and John Stones have adopted a cat they met in Qatar. What have they called it?

Kyle Walker

8.THE CHANCES OF ANYTHING COMING FROM MARS: The 1897 novel War of the Worlds by H G Wells features a Martian capsule landing in England and then starting an invasion. Where does the first capsule land?

Mars

9.VILLAGE PEOPLE’S POSER: Young man, there’s no need to feel down, Village People had a smash hit in 1978 with YMCA. But which A in Norse mythology is one of the first two humans, alongside Embla?

Village People

10.JEAN GENIE: Auction officials have sold what they describe as the oldest known pair of jeans in the world (not pictured) for $114,000. When do they date from?

Jeans

11.GOOD NUCLEAR THINGS: Boffins at the US National Ignition Facility in California claim to have created more energy than they used for the very first time in which process?

Atoms in space

12.BAD NUCLEAR THINGS: How many nuclear reactors where there at the Chornobyl power station in the Soviet Union?

Chornobyl

13.MUSIC DISCOGRAPHIES: A niche new round which is going to generate complaints. Which of these is the correct order for the first four albums by Spandau Ballet?

A record being played

14.ON THIS DAY: On 15 December 2001 the Leaning Tower of Pisa was reopened after a lengthy project to stabilise it. But when was the wacky building originally completed?

Tower of Pisa

15.ART FOR ART’S SAKE: Sculptures created by leading artists including Tracey Emin and David Bailey were expected to raise thousands of pounds for research into Parkinson’s disease when they were auctioned this week. What were the sculptures all of?

Tracey Emin

If you do think there has been an egregious error in one of the questions or answers, please feel free to email [email protected], but remember the quizmaster’s word is final, he is very busy with Harry and Meghan again, and it is his last day until Christmas Eve so he is not going to read it.

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