The Saturday quiz reveals that Taylor Swift's Eras Tour is the first concert tour to gross $2bn in ticket sales. The quiz, which tests knowledge across a range of topics, includes this fact as one of its 15 questions.
Quiz Questions and Answers
The questions cover art, animals, music, astronomy, medicine, chemistry, philately, sports, and more. For instance, Adolf Hitler requested an art gallery be established in Linz in his will. The honey badger (ratel) was named the 'most fearless animal' by Guinness World Records. The Kirkwood gaps are regions within main-belt asteroids. The Ishihara test diagnoses red/green colour vision deficiencies. Molybdenum is named from the Greek for lead. Helvetia appears on Swiss stamps. Cricket's minor counties were rebranded as 'national' in 2020.
Connections and Themes
The quiz also features links between subjects. Agatha Christie, Sophia Engastromenou, and Earl Spencer are all married to archaeologists: Max Mallowan, Heinrich Schliemann, and Cat Jarman respectively. 'The Red Detachment of Women,' 'The White-Haired Girl,' and 'Ode to the Yimeng Mountains' are Chinese revolutionary ballets. The Cosmati Pavement, Henry VII Chapel, Pyx Chamber, and Shrine of Edward the Confessor are parts of Westminster Abbey. Novel sequences named after places include Alexandria and Avignon by Lawrence Durrell, Balkans and Levant by Olivia Manning, Cairo by Naguib Mahfouz, and New York by Paul Auster. Historical 'Causes' include Lost (Confederate myth), Good Old (English republicanism), and Great (13th-century Scottish succession). Bands who worked with producer Brian Eno include Coldplay, Devo, James, Talking Heads, and U2. The scientific names of 2026 World Cup mascots are Alces alces (moose) for Canada, Haliaeetus leucocephalus (bald eagle) for the US, and Panthera onca (jaguar) for Mexico.
