bring you the exciting news that there are just 12 Thursday quizzes to go after this one until Christmas. Where does the time go, you may ask yourself? Have I achieved anything this year, you may ponder. And you may even ask yourself, as David Byrne did, “Am I right, am I wrong?”. Well at least after tackling these mostly topical silly news-based questions you will find out the answer to the latter. There are no prizes because it is just for fun, but let us know how you got in the comments. The Thursday quiz, No 179 1.A new huge sculpture of Oscar Wilde’s head lying on its side, his face sliced into segments, has been condemned as “absolutely hideous” by who? Sculpture Stephen Fry, television personality Lisa Nandy, culture secretary Oscar Wilde"s grandson, relative of Oscar Wilde King Charles III, the king Reveal 2.Where have prudes (pictured) demanded the removal of an artwork by Poppy Baynham from a gallery because she has had the audacity to actually paint something that shows the human body? Mary Whitehouse Chair gallery, Hay-on-Wye Couch gallery, St Ives Credenza gallery, Hebden Bridge Cabinet gallery, Stratford-upon-Avon Reveal 3.Everybody, but everybody, loves Abba, and 79-year-old Björn Ulvaeus optimistically got married for the third time this week. Who presided over the ceremony? Björn! Björn"s former wife and fellow Abba member Agnetha Fältskog Sweden"s prime minister Ulf Kristersson Television personality Sandi Toksvig Heir to the Swedish throne Crown Princess Victoria Television personality Ulrika Jonsson Björn"s fellow Abba member but not former wife Anni-Frid Lyngstad Ronald Mael from Sparks Reveal 4.What forced a Scandinavian Airlines flight from Oslo to Málaga to make an emergency landing in Copenhagen last week? Tail fin of a plane The pilot lost a contact lens and couldn"t see the instruments properly A drunk passenger refused to stop vaping A mouse crawled out of someone"s meal 30-50 feral hogs went on the rampage Reveal 5.Archaeologists have discovered a "Stonehenge" under which late novelist"s house in Dorset? Stonehenge George Eliot Thomas Hardy Graham Greene Mary Shelley Reveal 6.Which discontinued confectionery in the UK is getting a limited brand revival? Sugar Opal fruits Spangles Marathon Nick O"Teen candy cigarettes Reveal 7.Talking of sweets, today is the anniversary of the end of sugar rationing in the UK after the second world war. In what year did sugar rationing end in the UK? Sugar cubes 1947 1950 1953 1956 Reveal 8.It is also the anniversary of the first ever televised debate between presidential candidates in the US. Who did Richard Nixon debate in it? Television Lyndon B Johnson Canton Everett Delaware III George McGovern John F Kennedy Reveal 9.What interrupted the final practice for the Singapore F1 Grand Prix at the weekend? Tyres A lizard got on the track A partial solar eclipse which organisers had failed to plan for meant the session had to be split in two A flock of birds roosted in the pit lane A very naughty miniature dachshund ran amok Reveal 10.No maths or science this week, but we are heading to Uzbekistan for today"s geography question. What is the capital of Uzbekistan? Uzbeks Baku Tashkent Almaty Klow (formerly known as Zileheroum) Reveal 11.Willow, the official dog of the Guardian Thursday quiz, was really worried until she heard that a missing capybara was safely back home at Shropshire zoo. Remind Willow of the capybara"s name … Willow, the official dog of the Guardian"s Thursday quiz Cinnamon Sylvester Willow Precious Reveal 12.Another podgy animal going viral this week was a baby king penguin at the Sea Life aquarium in Melbourne who outweighs both of his foster parents combined. What is he (not pictured) called? Penguins Alfredo Pesto Pomodoro Derek Reveal 13.Emerald Fennell is adapting the world"s most miserable novel – Wuthering Heights (pictured) – for the big screen. Who has been announced as playing cheery old Catherine Earnshaw? Kate Bush lookalikes Lady Gaga Scarlett Johansson Morfydd Clark Margot Robbie Reveal 14.The Cure have announced their first new song for 16 years. Be still the Thursday quiz"s gothic old heart. But what was the name of the first Cure album to be released? Robert Smith Boys Don"t Cry Three Imaginary Boys 17 Seconds 10 Very Long Gloomy Songs and One Inexplicably Poppy One about Cats or a Spider or Something that gets in the Charts Reveal 15.And finally, how did Thursday quiz favourite, former MP and short-lived prime minister Liz Truss spend 23 September, the second anniversary of her disastrous mini-budget that ultimately led to her rapid ejection from Downing Street? Liz Truss She kept herself to herself, hoping people would gradually forget about it and reassess her contribution to British politics more favourably over time She issued a strident, nearly four-minute-long video saying she had been right all along and it was everybody else who was wrong