The Saturday quiz returns with a fresh set of questions that will test your knowledge across films, sports, history, and language. From the connection between Run Lola Run, Source Code, and Groundhog Day to the mysteries of Machu Picchu, this quiz has something for everyone.
The Questions
- The singer Rachel Agatha Keen performs under what mononym?
- Which national football side has just three wins, all against Liechtenstein?
- What religious movement was founded by Madame Blavatsky?
- Which car-making giant was established in 1968?
- What is the subject of Hiram Bingham’s book Lost City of the Incas?
- Petrichor is the particular smell produced by what?
- Which warbler is nicknamed the northern, or mock, nightingale?
- How many sides does a hectogon have?
- What links: Country singer and Rhodes scholar; Mastermind’s original host; Northern Ireland secretary 1997-99?
- What links: Earth measurement; pebble; reunion of broken parts?
- What links: Financial privilege; reasonable time; Salisbury doctrine; Sewel convention?
- What links: Edge of Tomorrow; Groundhog Day; Run Lola Run; Source Code?
- What links: Dinara Safina; Jelena Janković; Karolína Plíšková; Marcelo Ríos (ranking)?
- What links: Armburgh; Cely; Paston; Plumpton; Stonor?
- What links: Cara o cruz; Kopf oder Zahl; pile ou face; krona eller klave?
The Answers
- Raye.
- San Marino.
- Theosophy.
- British Leyland.
- Machu Picchu.
- Rain falling on (dry) soil.
- Blackcap.
- 100.
- First name contained within their surname: Kris Kristofferson; Magnus Magnusson; Mo Mowlam.
- Etymologies of branches of maths: geometry (Greek); calculus (Latin); algebra (Arabic).
- Conventions and rules observed in UK parliament.
- Films featuring time loops.
- Reached No 1 world tennis ranking without winning a grand slam.
- Collections of English medieval family correspondence.
- Heads or tails equivalent: Spanish; German; French; Swedish.
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