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The Times Daily Quiz: Tuesday January 3, 2023

Fifteen questions to get you thinking. The answers are below
Q15: Who is this author of Shopaholic Abroad (2001)?
Q15: Who is this author of Shopaholic Abroad (2001)?
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Challenge yourself with today’s puzzles.


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1 What is the English meaning of road signs that say ALTO (in Mexico), BERHENTI (Malaysia) and ARRÊT (Quebec)?

2 TN is the postal abbreviation for which US state?

3 Who dated an Australian boogie boarder named Blaine after breaking up with her long-term boyfriend in 2004?

4 Which US actor made his MGM film debut dancing with Joan Crawford in Dancing Lady (1933)?

5 Which term, Latin for “under the rose”, means in secret?

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6 Traditionally, the filling in a Lancashire butter pie is mainly onion and which other vegetable?

7 The podcast No Such Thing as a Fish is hosted by “elves” (researchers) from which BBC panel show?

8 In the Shakespeare play Twelfth Night, Feste is a fool employed by which countess?

9 St Christopher (2021) is the first solo album by which former Doctor Who star?

10 The dumb gulper is a deepwater species of which fish?

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11 Known for his theory of immaterialism, which Irish philosopher wrote A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge?

12 In Egypt, almost every man is said to have his “ahwa”. An ahwa is a traditional type of what?

13 Who wrote about her Clapham address in Home: The story of everyone who ever lived in our house (2004)?

14 Three-time Vuelta a España winner, Primoz Roglic was a world junior champion in which winter sport?

15 Which author of Shopaholic Abroad (2001) is pictured?

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Answers
1 Stop

2 Tennessee

3 Barbie

4 Fred Astaire

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5 Sub rosa

6 Potato

7 QI

8 Olivia

9 Peter Capaldi

10 Shark or dogfish

11 George Berkeley aka Bishop Berkeley

12 Coffee shop or coffee house

13 Julie Myerson

14 Ski jumping

15 Sophie Kinsella, the pen name of Madeleine Wickham