The Saturday quiz presents a new set of challenging questions, from 90s music duos to World Cup history. Test your knowledge across 15 questions covering pop culture, history, geography, and more.
Questions
1. Which 90s duo only released three singles, all chart toppers?
2. Betsy Ross is traditionally credited with designing and making what?
3. Based in Cambridge, which geographical research organisation is the BAS?
4. Which wetland sedge is important in the history of writing?
5. What did Nasa borrow from the 1929 Fritz Lang film Woman in the Moon?
6. What 1,000-year-old Sherwood Forest resident died in 2026?
7. Which country’s national museum burned down in 2018?
8. Which magazine was named after the sound of a “guitar being struck with force”?
What links
9. E, H, I and S; June Brown; Kendrick Lamar, formerly?
10. White (bow); red (sword); black (pair of scales); pale (nothing)?
11. Robert Mitchum, 1962; Robert De Niro, 1991; Javier Bardem, 2026?
12. Hetty Feather; Tom Jones; Oedipus; Oliver Twist; Superman?
13. Cadbury Castle; Danebury; Maiden Castle; Vespasian’s Camp?
14. Abhakshya; haram; tabu; treif?
15. Maracanaço; Miracle of Bern; Battle of Santiago; Disgrace of Gijón?
Answers
1. Robson & Jerome.
2. First (or an early) US flag.
3. British Antarctic Survey.
4. Cyperus papyrus.
5. Launch countdown to zero.
6. Major oak tree.
7. Brazil.
8. Kerrang!
9. Dots: only use dots in morse code; played Dot Cotton in EastEnders; former stage name K-Dot.
10. Four horsemen of the apocalypse (what they’re carrying).
11. Played villain Max Cady in Cape Fear.
12. Fictional foundlings.
13. Iron age hill forts.
14. Terms for prohibited/forbidden things: Hinduism; Islam; Polynesian culture; Judaism.
15. (In)famous matches in World Cup history: Brazil v Uruguay, 1950; West Germany v Hungary, 1954; Chile v Italy, 1962; West Germany v Austria, 1982.
