Thursday again, we exclaim with surprise, as if seven rotations of the planet was some kind of innate measure of time rather than an arbitrary distinction that capitalism imposed on us. Anyway, cheer up. Fifteen vaguely topical and general knowledge questions await you, with an extra bonus this week. It is just for fun. There are no prizes. But feel free to let us know in the comments your score, and you could earn bonus points if you spot any oblique nods to Doctor Who. Enjoy! The Thursday quiz, No 60 1.I"M AFRAID I CAN"T DO THAT DAVE: Google has put an engineer on leave after he kept saying one of its AI chatbots had become sentient. What is the chatbot called? Dall-E 2 mini GPT-3 Wotan LaMDA Reveal 2.FULL FATHOM FIVE: The wreck of a Royal Navy warship that sank in 1682 while carrying the future king James Stuart has been identified off the coast of Norfolk. What was it called? HMS Gloucester HMS Nottingham HMS Stafford SS Bernice Reveal 3.THE SILVER SCREEN: Irish-language film An Cailín Ciúin has earned more than €600,000 since its release last month, breaking box office records in Ireland and the UK. What is the title of the film in translation? The Strange Girl The Perfect Girl The Impossible Girl The Quiet Girl Reveal 4.DEUCE: Sue Barker has announced this year will be her last year broadcasting from Wimbledon. But when did she retire as a professional tennis player? 1976 1980 1984 1988 Reveal 5.FACES IN THE NEWS: Who is this? Charles Michel, president of the European Council Olaf Scholz, chancellor of Germany Mario Draghi, prime minister of Italy Pedro Sánchez, prime minister of Spain Reveal 6.ANOTHER FINE MESS: It would have been comedian Stan Laurel"s birthday today. But where was he (pictured, left) born? Old Greenwich, Connecticut, USA Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India Nairn, Nairnshire, Scotland Ulverston, Lancashire, England Reveal 7.IT"S A DOG"S LIFE: A 12-week-old puppy named Daisy (not pictured – that"s Willow) has successfully had emergency surgery in Derby after eating what? 20 whole coins adding up to £2.68 A whole box of Durex-brand "Pleasure me ribbed and dotted" condoms Four whole pork chops, and all of the plastic packaging they came in 70 whole ancient Sumerian cubits worth of dog treats Reveal 8.GCSE SCIENCE CORNER: Which of these actions causes there to be a chemical reaction? Adding vinegar to water Mixing salt with water Stirring sugar into a cup of tea Leaving milk to go sour Reveal 9.FIBONACCI NUMBERS: First described in Indian mathematics, and forming a sequence where each number is the sum of the two preceding ones, F₁₇ is 1597 and thankfully the last question in this series. But in 1597 Jacopo Peri and Jacopo Corsi wrote what is considered by many to be the first opera. Setting the story of a Greek myth to music, what was it called? Dafne Euridice Metope Opera Reveal 10.HAVE IT YOUR WAY: McDonald"s restaurants in Russia have begun reopening with a new logo and under the new name Vkusno & tochka, which (roughly) translates to what? Burgers and that"s it Tasty and that"s it Fast food and that"s it Clown-free and that"s it Reveal 11.IN THE STARS: On 16 June 1963, before there was a McDonald"s in Moscow, the Soviet Union sent Valentina Tereshkova into space. She was the first woman that we know of to go into orbit. What was the name of her spaceship? Vostok 6 Sputnik 5 Voskhod 2 Zond 3 Reveal 12.JOKER FACE: Lady Gaga is going to be starring in the sequel to the miserabilist multi-award-winning Joker movie. Who will she be playing? Batgirl, the daughter of Commissioner James Gordon Harley Quinn, an Arkham Asylum psychiatrist who falls in love with the Joker Poison Ivy, the alter ego of so-called "eco-terrorist" Dr Pamela Lillian Isley The Anchoress, the oldest living inmate of Arkham Asylum kept eternally young due to her experiments with quantum mechanics Reveal 13.PHILATELY SPEAKING: Which rock star"s childhood stamp collection will be going on display at the Postal Museum in London in July? Rod Stewart Freddie Mercury Roger Daltrey Ron from Sparks Reveal 14.NICOTINA: That"s a 1982 song by Sparks, but that"s not important right now. It has been recommended that the smoking age in England should rise by a year, each and every year, to extinguish the habit. Which other country has previously announced this policy? Japan Switzerland Australia New Zealand Reveal 15.ALLONS-Y: The website Wikivoyage lists 23 locations visited by the fictional Phileas Fogg in Jules Verne"s novel Around the World in Eighty Days, none of them by hot air balloon. No 20 is New York, New York, US. So good they named it twice. But what was it originally called? New Volendam New Amsterdam New Rotterdam New Veendam Reveal 16.BONUS CORRECTION QUESTION: Which of these cities is not mentioned in the massive smash hit Pop Muzik by Robin Scott"s M? London Paris New York Madrid