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The Times Daily Quiz: Friday March 18, 2022

Fifteen questions to get you thinking. The answers are below
Q15: Who is this 19th-century African-American abolitionist?
Q15: Who is this 19th-century African-American abolitionist?
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Challenge yourself with today’s puzzles.


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1 The bofsandwich is the traditional Danish take on which staple of American fast food?

2 In 1985, Michael Harrison made the first UK call with which device?

3 The state carnivorous plant of North Carolina, Dionaea muscipula is better known by which name?

4 Who succeeded Stephen Harper as Canada’s prime minister?

5 Which actor plays the title role in the 2022 film The Batman?

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6 Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance has been found at a depth of 3,008m in which sea?

7 The Henry VIII Gate can be found at which hospital, the oldest in London?

8 Rangatira are the chiefs of a hapu (clan) in which culture?

9 Author of the novel Murder Most Fab, which comedian performed as The Joan Collins Fan Club?

10 Which English sci-fi author wrote the novels Trouble with Lichen (1960) and Chocky (1968)?

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11 Which Lorraine Hansberry work was the first drama by an African-American woman to be produced on Broadway?

12 The Battle of the Aegates (241BC) was a decisive Roman victory in which war?

13 Which US composer wrote the Afro-American Symphony (1931)?

14 In netball, which position is signified by the letters GK?

15 Which 19th-century African-American abolitionist is pictured?

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Answers
1 Hamburger

2 Mobile phone — Harrison was the son of Vodafone’s chairman. The comedian Ernie Wise made the second call a few hours later

3 Venus flytrap

4 Justin Trudeau

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5 Robert Pattinson

6 Weddell Sea

7 St Bartholomew’s Hospital or St Barts. It features London’s only outdoor statue of the Tudor king

8 Maori culture

9 Julian Clary

10 John Wyndham

11 A Raisin in the Sun — in 1959

12 First Punic War

13 William Grant Still

14 Goal keeper

15 Frederick Douglass