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The Times Daily Quiz: Friday April 12, 2024

Fifteen questions to get you thinking. The answers are below
Q15: Which Sesame Street Muppet is this?
Q15: Which Sesame Street Muppet is this?
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Challenge yourself with today’s puzzles.


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1 In 1962, Mattel introduced which doll’s Dreamhouse?

2 In the Bible, Solomon was the son and successor of which Israelite king?

3 In 1553, which Tudor queen restored Roman Catholicism as England’s state religion?

4 Which former Take That member released the 1998 album I’ve Been Expecting You?

5 What did Doctor Johnson say is “a grain, which in England is given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people”?

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6 In 1824, which art gallery opened in John Julius Angerstein’s London townhouse at 100 Pall Mall?

7 Which former Sex Pistol wrote the “uncensored” autobiography Anger is an Energy (2014)?

8 Launched in 2004, which Hyundai compact SUV is named after Arizona’s second-largest city?

9 Which politician won the safe Labour constituency of Hull East in 1970?

10 In which Apple TV+ miniseries does the fictional Elizabeth Zott host the cookery show Supper at Six?

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11 Which “poor man’s Sherlock Holmes” drove a bulletproof Rolls-Royce named “The Grey Panther”?

12 Helping to pull the hind leg forward, what is the largest joint in the horse’s body?

13 Woody Harrelson’s directorial debut, which film was shot and screened live in cinemas on January 19, 2017?

14 Which Olympic diving champion wrote the children’s novel Jack Splash (2024)?

15 Which Sesame Street Muppet is this?

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Answers

1 Barbie

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2 David

3 Mary I

4 Robbie Williams

5 Oats

6 National Gallery

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7 John Lydon aka Johnny Rotten

8 Hyundai Tucson

9 John Prescott, now Baron Prescott of Kingston-upon-Hull

10 Lessons in Chemistry, Zott is played by Brie Larson

11 Sexton Blake

12 Stifle

13 Lost in London, it was the first first feature-length film to be shot in in real time and broadcast live

14 Tom Daley, who co-wrote it with Simon James Green

15 Cookie Monster