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The Times Daily Quiz

Fifteen questions to get you thinking. The answers are below
Which retired cyclist is this?
Which retired cyclist is this?
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Challenge yourself with today’s puzzles.


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1 In 1987, Posdnuos, Dave and Maseo formed which Long Island hip-hop trio?

2 Which Yugoslav nationalist assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28, 1914?

3 Ennio Morricone’s composition The Ecstasy of Gold is part of his score for which 1966 spaghetti western?

4 Pressured by Philip IV of France, Pope Clement V suppressed which military order in 1312?

5 Jeremy Dyson, Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith formed which comedy group in 1995?

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6 Sir Norman Lockyer and Pierre Janssen are credited with discovering which noble gas in 1868?

7 In which movie do Martians tell Woody Allen: “We enjoy your films, particularly the early funny ones”?

8 Whose ex-husbands include Conrad Hilton, George Sanders, Jack Ryan and Felipe de Alba?

9 Beyoncé co-founded the activewear line Ivy Park with which fashion retailer?

10 In 1975, NASA’s Viking mission sent two space probes to which planet?

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11 Which paired nerve transmits visual information from the retina to the brain?

12 Which species is universally adopted as the mammalian laboratory model?

13 Which British author set his novels Shardik and Maia in the fictional Beklan Empire?

14 The Yale-Harvard Boat Race is held near New London, Connecticut, on which river?

15 Which retired cyclist is pictured?

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Answers

1 De La Soul

2 Gavrilo Princip

3 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

4 Knights Templar

5 The League of Gentlemen

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6 Helium

7 Stardust Memories

8 Zsa Zsa Gabor

9 Topshop

10 Mars

11 Optic nerve (CN II)

12 House mouse (Mus musculus)

13 Richard Adams

14 Thames River

15 Victoria Pendleton