Martin Belam outside the Papal Basilica of Saint Peter in the Vatican

The Thursday quiz cares not for your so-called Christmas traditions and bank holiday. It is Thursday, and so here we are, regardless of whether it is a national holiday in the UK or not. Although in reality, the quiz master is stuffed full of yesterday’s Christmas dinner and off to see Leyton Orient at home to Crawley Town, before stuffing himself again with festive leftovers, and actually wrote this weeks ago, with every question in it loosely tied to boxes. Have fun, guess well, and a very happy new year to you all!

The Thursday quiz, No 190

  1. 1.A cheery question to start with. Boxing Day is St Stephen’s Day. In which horrible way was St Stephen (not pictured, that is the quiz master) martyred?

  2. 2.Boxing Day was made a bank holiday in England by the Bank Holidays Act of which year?

    Bank of England

  3. 3.Schrödinger’s cat (both pictured and not pictured) is probably the most famous cat ever to get into a box. Schrödinger proposed the thought experiment during an exchange of letters with who, about what?

    A cat

  4. 4.What is the name for the set of rules formulated for the sport of boxing published in 1867?

    Boxing gloves

  5. 5.Which singer, more famous for being part of an exciting modern young beat combo, had a solo album called Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes?

    Vinyl

  6. 6.One of painter René Magritte’s famous works (not pictured) is called Pandora’s Box. Where did Magritte come from?

    Painting

  7. 7.OMD had a lovely single in 1991 called Pandora’s Box, about Louise Brooks. In 1929 she starred in two films directed by GW Pabst – Pandora’s Box and …?

    OMD

  8. 8.Who originally did the narrated voiceover on Gogglebox when it hit British screens in 2013?

    Television

  9. 9.Three of these are legitimate names for Ikea box storage solutions. Spot the odd one out.

    An Ikea store

  10. 10.The South African men’s national rugby union team is commonly known as the Springboks (Spring-box, geddit?) What is the nickname of the South African women’s rugby union team?

    Rugby ball

  11. 11.This is Willow, the official dog of the Guardian thursday quiz. She wants to know, if you put down the six-letter word ‘boxing’ on a standard English Scrabble board, what does the value of the letters on the tiles add up to?

    Willow, the official dog of the Guardian Thursday quiz

  12. 12.Boxing Day is the anniversary of the premiere of the first collaboration between dramatist WS Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan. Most of the music is now lost, but what was it called?

    Music

  13. 13.Boxing Day is the birthday of Lars Ulrich, the drummer of Metallica. Happy birthday Lars! Where was he born?

    Drums

  14. 14.In what year did David Blaine do that weird thing of staying for 44 days in a transparent box suspended in the air by the River Thames?

    David Blaine in his box

  15. 15.This is getting to be a stretch now, but if you had a box set of the plays published in Shakespeare’s First Folio in 1623, how many plays would you have?

    Shakespeare

Why not celebrate Boxing Day by enjoying Britain’s best new band the New Eves playing Mother at the Green Man festival?

Mother by the New Eves recorded live at the Green Man festival sessions


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