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The Times Saturday Quiz: August 7, 2021

Twenty questions to get you thinking. The answers are below
Q20: Which mythical figure is depicted in this sculpture?
Q20: Which mythical figure is depicted in this sculpture?
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1 In 1502, Christopher Columbus began his fourth voyage across which ocean?

2 Bunga Bunga is a 2020 podcast series about which Italian prime minister?

3 Which US credit card company revived the slogan “Don’t leave home without it” in 2005?

4 Home to the Curry Mile on Wilmslow Road, Rusholme is an urban suburb of which city?

5 Which South American city is the closest national capital to the Equator?

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6 Who was inaugurated US president at the age of 43 years and 236 days?

7 Random orbital, orbital, palm, belt, disc and delta are types of which power tool?

8 In 1872, which Tory prime minister gave his “One Nation” speech at Manchester Free Trade Hall?

9 Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney, wrote the “Invitation to William” — which William?

10 A basalt column from which Co Antrim location stands outside Hibernian Hall, Charleston, South Carolina?

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11 Which Charles Dickens novel opens: “Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life …”?

12 The Rose family (Johnny, Moira, David and Alexis) move to the title town in which Canadian sitcom?

13 The French beauty retailer Sephora derives its name from the wife of which biblical prophet?

14 The 2007 documentary Mr Warmth is about which American insult comic?

15 Which duck-billed dinosaur of the late Cretaceous has a name that means “near crested lizard”?

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16 Which former Kingston Trio member released his signature album, California Bloodlines, in 1969?

17 The first African American painter to gain international acclaim, who painted The Banjo Lesson (1893)?

18 Which Welshman coached the British Lions rugby team during their victorious 1971 tour to New Zealand?

19 Which Open Championship golf course is located in Gullane, East Lothian?

20 The pictured sculpture represents which mythical figure?

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Answers
1 Atlantic Ocean

2 Silvio Berlusconi

3 American Express

4 Manchester

5 Quito

6 John F Kennedy

7 Sander

8 Benjamin Disraeli

9 The future King William III or William of Orange

10 Giant’s Causeway

11 David Copperfield

12 Schitt’s Creek

13 Moses — as in Zipporah

14 Don Rickles

15 Parasaurolophus

16 John Stewart

17 Henry Ossawa Turner

18 Carwyn James

19 Muirfield

20 Heracles or Hercules. It is the Farnese Hercules