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The Times Daily Quiz: Thursday August 5, 2021

Fifteen questions to get you thinking. The answers are below
Q15: Name this evergreen perennial herb
Q15: Name this evergreen perennial herb
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Puzzles

Challenge yourself with today’s puzzles.


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Sudoku


1 The two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea are both autonomous regions of which country?

2 Which Ba’ath Party politician was the vice-president of Iraq from July 1968 to July 1979?

3 Which children’s modelling material was invented c 1897 by the art teacher William Harbutt?

4 Chunkylover53@aol.com is the email address of which fictional patriarch?

5 Originating in Scotland, Lorne sausage is usually what shape?

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6 Which poet wrote Adonais (1821) on the death of his friend John Keats?

7 Rolf Wütherich survived the car crash that killed which film star in 1955?

8 Which country’s air force shot down Korean Air Lines Flight 007 in 1983?

9 Which Italian painter’s The Taking of Christ (1602) is indefinitely loaned to the National Gallery of Ireland?

10 The Franck-Hertz experiment was an important confirmation of which model of the atom?

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11 Which Englishwoman was the first chief designer at a major fashion house to take maternity leave?

12 Founded by Gordon Murray and Chris Craft, which British carmaker’s only model was the Rocket (1991)?

13 Which producer became the first Grammy winner from Kazakhstan for his 2019 remix of Saint Jhn’s Roses?

14 Which rower won his fifth New Zealand Sportsman of the Year title in 2016?

15 Which evergreen perennial herb is pictured?

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Answers
1 Italy — as in Sicily and Sardinia

2 Saddam Hussein

3 Plasticine

4 Homer Simpson

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5 Square

6 Percy Bysshe Shelley

7 James Dean

8 Soviet Union

9 Caravaggio

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10 Bohr model or Rutherford-Bohr model

11 Phoebe Philo — when she was at Chloé, in 2004

12 LCC or Light Car Company

13 Imanbek aka Imanbek Maratuly Zeikenov

14 Mahé Drysdale

15 Thyme