The questions 1 Which polymath scammed the French lottery in 1730?2 Dutch monarchs are buried in what city’s Nieuwe Kerk?3 What produces a pyroclastic flow?4 …
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Which fellow dystopian taught George Orwell at Eton? The Saturday quiz | Life and style
The questions 1 Which US president won the Nobel peace prize and the Medal of Honor?2 What peaked at $68,789 in November 2021?3 Which fellow …
Which tycoon once owned Land’s End and John o’Groats? The Saturday quiz | Life and style
The questions 1 Which woman had nine works in the first impressionist exhibition?2 Which bird’s heart beats up to 1,260 times a minute?3 Who is …
What links a small chicken and visible radiation? The Saturday quiz | Life and style
The questions 1 Which king of England spent less than 10% of his reign here?2 Cygnus X-1, in 1971, was the first of what to …
Which writer’s daughter was Princess Diana’s stepmother? The Saturday quiz | Life and style
The questions 1 Six Nobel prizes have involved research into which insects? 2 Where did Changeover Day take place on 14 February, 1966?3 What was …
What last went down British coalmines in 1986? The Saturday quiz | Life and style
The questions 1 Who won the debut season of Ukraine’s Dancing With the Stars?2 Which 1963 book is credited with inspiring second-wave feminism?3 A species …
What links the Monkees to Minder? The Saturday quiz | Life and style
The questions 1 In 1841 which instrument debuted at an exhibition in Brussels?2 Bella and Bertie stand on top of which building?3 What story was …
Amália Rodrigues was the queen of which Iberian music style? The Saturday quiz | Life and style
The questions 1 Which novel’s title alludes to the start of 15 August 1947? 2 The Sixth Yamaguchi-gumi is the largest group of what?3 Which …
Which British zoo has two giant pandas? The Saturday quiz | Life and style
The questions 1 Which PM said: “When I want to read a novel I write one”?2 The Three Counties system is a 55-mile network of …
Who inspired the Daily Worker headline A Communist in Space? The Saturday quiz | Life and style
The questions 1 Who inspired the Daily Worker headline “A Communist in Space”?2 Which society was divided into jarls, karls and thralls?3 Whose earnings would …
What links Jean Rhys to Salman Rushdie? The Saturday quiz | Life and style
The questions 1 Whose only tennis singles defeat in 1983 was to Kathy Horvath?2 Radioactive element americium is used in which household device?3 Which list …
Which was the ill-fated sister ship of the Peter Pomegranate? The Saturday quiz | Life and style
The questions 1 Which writer from Stamps, Arkansas, appeared on a US stamp in 2015?2 Mec Vannin campaigns for which island’s independence?3 Which was the …
What links Ingrid Bergman, Shakespeare and James Lovelock? The Saturday quiz | Life and style
The questions 1 Where are 1, 3, 26 and 16 memorialised together?2 Which national flag features a cactus, an eagle and a snake?3 June Spencer …
What links Jim Morrison and Agamemnon? The Saturday quiz | Life and style
1 Which woman was made first secretary of state in 1968?2 Which country is the world’s biggest oil producer? 3 What does the Kármán line …
Which muppets were named after New York hotels? The Saturday quiz | Life and style
The questions 1 What is thought to have originated in marmots from Kyrgyzstan?2 Which logo features an incomplete jigsaw globe?3 Who is the only writer …
Who borrowed her book titles from Dostoevsky? The Saturday quiz | Life and style
The questions 1 Which Italian competition inspired Eurovision?2 Who borrowed her book titles from Dostoevsky and Kierkegaard?3 Q1 is the tallest building on which continent?4 …
How we met: ‘I was a paper boy and she was the Saturday girl in the newsagents – she seemed so cool!’ | Life and style
In 2004, when Claire was a teenager, she got a Saturday job at her local newsagents. She was soon spotted by one of the paper …
What do Miss Great Britain 1957 and Ben-Hur have in common? The Saturday quiz | Life and style
The questions 1 Which PM’s last words were “I have been murdered”?2 The eastern diamondback is the largest of what type of reptile?3 Which rapper …
What links lawnmowers, pencils and baked beans? The Saturday quiz | Life and style
The questions 1 The world’s largest religious monument appears on which national flag?2 Which competitors step up to the oche?3 Gian Gastone (d 1737) was …
What is the shortest street on the London Monopoly board? The Saturday quiz | Life and style
The questions 1 Whose jar became a box after a mistranslation by Erasmus?2 Charlotte Prodger, in 2018, was the last individual winner of what?3 Which …