This little dormouse has some questions for you. Photograph: Ovia Images/Alamy View image in fullscreen This little dormouse has some questions for you. Photograph: Ovia Images/Alamy Thursday quiz Life and style Thursday news quiz: A speeding car, a police faux pas and an app that’s gone too far? Test yourself on topical news trivia, pop culture and general knowledge every Thursday. How will you fare?
Prefer the Guardian on Google On this day in 1888, the mechanical mastermind John Logie Baird was born in Dunbartonshire. He was the pioneering inventor who first beamed a recognisable image across a room, giving the world the very first working television. Without his early experiments with biscuit tins, darning needles and bicycle lenses, half of the questions the Thursday quiz has asked would never have been possible. So tune in, turn up your mental brightness, and test your frequency with these 15 questions. Allons-y!
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