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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? On this day in 1888, the mechanical mastermind John Logie Baird was born in Dunbartonshire. He was the…

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? On this day in 1888, the mechanical mastermind John Logie Baird was born in Dunbartonshire..

Test yourself on topical news trivia, pop culture and general knowledge every Thursday. How will you fare?

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!

The Thursday news quiz, No 260

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