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The Times Saturday Quiz: November 6, 2021

Twenty questions to get you thinking. The answers are below
Q20: Nidaros Cathedral is in which Norwegian city?
Q20: Nidaros Cathedral is in which Norwegian city?
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1 The 1840 Treaty of Waitangi was an agreement between Britain and which people of New Zealand?

2 Which TV personality and journalist was born Piers Stefan O’Meara in 1965?

3 Which biblical event is depicted in works by Tintoretto in the Basilica di San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, and Leonardo in Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan?

4 Which 1975 blockbuster film is known in France as Les Dents de la Mer?

5 Jacques Tardi’s 1993 graphic novel It Was the War of the Trenches is about which conflict?

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6 The food term “à la Hongroise” refers to a dish cooked in a cream sauce with which powdered spice?

7 The Thar Desert is located partly in Pakistan and partly in which other country?

8 Which Russian opposition activist has been awarded the 2021 Sakharov prize for freedom of thought?

9 The chacma (Papio ursinus) is a large species of which Old World monkey?

10 In 1970, which socialist became president of Chile?

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11 Car Fever, The Reassembler and Oh Cook! are books by which former Top Gear presenter?

12 In Welsh legend, King Arthur battled the Twrch Trwyth, a monstrous type of which animal?

13 I Love College was the 2009 debut single of which American rapper?

14 Which politician, who served as Canadian prime minister in 1984, was born in Richmond, Surrey?

15 Who starred as Mike Kovac in the US TV crime drama Man with a Camera (1958-60)?

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16 “She had a nostalgia for a life she had never lived” is a quote from which 1998 Nancy Lemann novel?

17 Born Sandra Fabara in 1964, which Ecuadorean-American street artist is nicknamed “the first lady of graffiti”?

18 Which US city is home to the Alamodome indoor stadium?

19 The second-largest sailing regatta in the UK is held in which Devon seaside town?

20 The pictured Nidaros Cathedral is in which Norwegian city?

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Answers
1 Maori

2 Piers Morgan

3 The Last Supper

4 Jaws

5 The First World War

6 Paprika

7 India

8 Alexei Navalny

9 Baboon

10 Salvador Allende

11 James May

12 Boar

13 Asher Roth

14 John (Napier) Turner

15 Charles Bronson

16 The Fiery Pantheon

17 Lady Pink

18 San Antonio

19 Dartmouth. It is the Port of Dartmouth Royal Regatta

20 Trondheim