The Saturday quiz includes the question: "Which awards were founded by the late Kanya King?" The answer is the MOBO Awards (Music Of Black Origin). Kanya King, pictured in May 2022, founded the MOBO Awards in 1996 to celebrate music of black origin.
Quiz questions and answers
The quiz features 15 questions covering a wide range of topics. Question 1 asks: "What is the UK’s single most dispensed medicine?" Answer: Atorvastatin. Question 2: "Fólkvangr was the alternative destination to where?" Answer: Valhalla (for warriors slain in battle). Question 3: "In June 2026, which pottery firm ended production after 217 years?" Answer: Denby. Question 4: "Which religion’s calendar is determined by moon sighting committees?" Answer: Islam. Question 5: "The Filipino Efren Reyes is considered the GOAT of what indoor game?" Answer: Pool.
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Question 7: "Which Cossack inspired works by Byron, Pushkin, Liszt and Tchaikovsky?" Answer: Ivan Mazepa. Question 8: "Which US state is said to have been ruled by six flags?" Answer: Texas (Spain; France; Mexico; Republic of Texas; Confederacy; US). Question 9: "What links: Black-footed; Fishing; Geoffroy’s; Pallas’s; Sand?" Answer: Small wild cats. Question 10: "What links: Countdown; The Body Show; Brookside; Walter; Five Go Mad in Dorset?" Answer: Programmes shown on the launch day of Channel 4.
Final set of answers
Question 11: "What links: Hjalmar Schacht (minister of economics); Franz von Papen (vice-chancellor); Hans Fritzsche (propagandist)?" Answer: Acquitted at the Nuremberg trials. Question 12: "What links: Murchison Promontory, Nunavut; Cape Nordkinn, Finnmark; Cape Chelyuskin, Siberia?" Answer: Most northerly points: North America (Canada); Europe (Norway); Asia (Russia). Question 13: "What links: Little Miss Sunshine; Barbie and White Noise; The Hurt Locker and Titanic?" Answer: Films whose directors are/were married: Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris; Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach; Kathryn Bigelow and James Cameron. Question 14: "What links: Adversary; Agent; Garden; History; Pilgrim?" Answer: Novels titled The Secret … : Agatha Christie; Joseph Conrad; Frances Hodgson Burnett; Donna Tartt; John le Carré. Question 15: "What links: Rome, 390BC; Ballantine’s warehouse, Dumbarton; São Pedro de Alcântara prison, Brazil?" Answer: Guarded by geese.
