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The Times Daily Quiz: Monday February 26, 2024

Fifteen questions to get you thinking. The answers are below
Q15: Who is this broadcaster and writer?
Q15: Who is this broadcaster and writer?
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1 The Australian actor Jacob Elordi plays which US singer in the 2023 film Priscilla?

2 The annual Heath Ledger Scholarship is awarded to emerging actors from which country?

3 What was the world’s first adhesive postage stamp?

4 What is the holiest city in Islam?

5 Which planet was called the “morning star” and the “evening star” by the ancients?

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6 In 1969, Schweppes merged with which British chocolate company?

7 Used by the ancient Romans, giallo antico is an ornamental type of which hard stone?

8 Located at the end of Avinguda Reina Maria Cristina, the Magic Fountain of Montjuic is in which city?

9 Which meringue-topped dessert is also known as an “omelette norvégienne”?

10 Who played the title role in the 2008 TV drama Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley?

11 Which word describes high volumes of unwanted creatures that are caught in fishing methods such as gillnetting?

12 Which British architect (1814-1900) designed the London church of All Saints, Margaret Street?

13 In 1995, Juliette Binoche became the face of which French cosmetics house’s perfume Poème?

14 Which snooker legend is the subject of a 2023 documentary subtitled The Edge of Everything?

15 Who is this broadcaster and writer?

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Answers

1 Elvis Presley

2 Australia

3 Penny Black

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4 Mecca

5 Venus

6 Cadbury

7 Marble

8 Barcelona

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9 Baked Alaska

10 Andrea Riseborough

11 Bycatch

12 William Butterfield

13 Lancôme

14 Ronnie O’Sullivan

15 Adrian Chiles