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The Times Daily Quiz: Friday August 6, 2021

Fifteen questions to get you thinking. The answers are below
Q15: Who is this Belgian fashion designer (b 1946)?
Q15: Who is this Belgian fashion designer (b 1946)?
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1 Sculpted by John Doubleday, a statue of which fictional detective is located on Marylebone Road, London?

2 In Some Mothers Do ’Ave ’Em, Frank Spencer often wore which form of headwear?

3 Which English “Maritime Mercantile City” has been stripped of Unesco world heritage site status?

4 Which Spanish sparkling wine is made mainly with macabeo, parellada, and xarel-lo grapes?

5 Which character in the musical Wicked becomes the Wicked Witch of the West?

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6 Found on the west coast of Africa, what is a sooty mangabey?

7 Which British politician is the son-in-law of Indian billionaire Narayana Murthy, co-founder of Infosys?

8 Which 1990 cookbook/memoir by Marco Pierre White shares its title with a James Cagney gangster film?

9 Eisriesenwelt, the world’s largest ice cave, is in which EU country?

10 The debut single Swagger Jagger was a No 1 for which singer, who finished fourth in The X Factor in 2010?

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11 Oban, aka Halfmoon Bay, is the main settlement on which island of New Zealand?

12 Which 1982 film was adapted from Thomas Hauser’s book The Execution of Charles Horman: An American Sacrifice?

13 Which French piano-playing sisters are known for their 1981 release of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue?

14 Which Kenyan athlete holds the men’s outdoor and indoor 3,000m world records?

15 Which Belgian fashion designer (b 1946) is pictured?

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Answers
1 Sherlock Holmes

2 Beret

3 Liverpool

4 Cava

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5 Elphaba [Thropp]

6 Monkey

7 Rishi Sunak

8 White Heat

9 Austria

10 Cher Lloyd

11 Stewart Island or Rakiura

12 Missing

13 Katia and Marielle Labèque

14 Daniel Komen

15 Diane von Furstenberg