Weekly Quiz - 15th September 2023

What is the name of the EU's flagship scientific research scheme that the UK is to rejoin allowing UK-based scientists and institutions to apply for money from the £81bn (€95bn) fund?

• Horizon 2020

• Horizon Europe

• European Research Council

• EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation

A set of 12 stamps has been released by Royal Mail to celebrate which Welsh singers 70 year musical career?4

• Tom Jones

• Shirley Bassey

• Bonnie Tyler

• Bryn Terfel

Ezra Collective have won the Mercury Prize, (awarded for the best British or Irish album of the last 12 months) with their album Where I'm Meant To Be, what genre of music do they play?

• Jazz

• Rock

• Hip Hop

• Folk

Charlotte Dujardin, Charlotte Fry, Gareth Hughes and Carl Hester won Britain’s first team gold team medal since London 2012 at the European Championships of which sport in Germany last week?

• Swimming

• Equestrian Dressage

• Gymnastics

• Track and Field

What natural disaster killed over 2,000 people last weekend in the Moroccan town of Marrakesh and the surrounding area?

• Earthquake

• Landslide

• Tornado

• Flood

From which prison in West London did the terrorist suspect Daniel Khalife escape last week sparking a major manhunt?

• HMP Belmarsh

• HMP Feltham

• Wormwood Scrubs

• HMP Wandsworth

President Modi of India has been hosting which major World conference in the last week?

• World Health Assembly

• United Nations General Assembly

• Global Climate Summit

• G20

Mangosuthu Buthelezi, a major figure in South African politics has died at the age of 95, of which tribal grouping was he a Prince?

• Tswana

• Venda

• Zulu

• Xhosa

England beat Argentina in their first pool game of the World Cup, in which French city was the game played?

• Paris

• Marseille

• Lyon

• Toulouse

Which important Chinese cultural relic has been severely damaged by construction workers in central Shanxi province, who used an excavator to dig through it?

• The Terracotta Army

• The Great Wall of China

• The Forbidden City

• The Longmen Grottoes