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The Times Daily Quiz: Thursday December 28, 2023

Fifteen questions to get you thinking. The answers are below
Q15: Which 2017 film, starring Sir Daniel Day-Lewis, is this?
Q15: Which 2017 film, starring Sir Daniel Day-Lewis, is this?
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1 Grévy’s, plains and mountain are the three living species of which black-and-white striped mammal?

2 Closed in 2017, Mustard TV was a local station based in which English city?

3 Who did King Victor Emmanuel III dismiss as Italy’s head of government on July 25, 1943?

4 Which beagle was played by Roger Bart in the 1999 Broadway revival of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown?

5 Which leader of the Third Crusade was the third son of King Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine?

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6 Which of the Wombles is named after a country in southeast Europe?

7 Who painted Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth (1889)?

8 Debuting in 2013, the CBBC drama The Dumping Ground is the third series in which TV franchise?

9 The Roman town of Derventio became Little Chester, a suburb of which Midlands city?

10 The Wolfskehl prize, originally worth DM100,000, was given to the first person to prove which theorem?

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11 The Jonathan Glazer film The Zone of Interest (2023) is based on which late author’s 2014 novel of the same name?

12 Launched in 2017 by a Cologne-based company, what claims to be “the world’s most accurate translator”?

13 Which strong lightweight aluminium alloy was patented in 1909 by Alfred Wilm, a German metallurgist?

14 Brazil’s Manoel Tobias, Ricardinho and Schumacher are three of the greatest ever players in which sport?

15 Which 2017 film, starring Sir Daniel Day-Lewis, is this?

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Answers

1 Zebra

2 Norwich

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3 Benito Mussolini

4 Snoopy

5 Richard I or Richard the Lionheart

6 Great Uncle Bulgaria

7 John Singer Sargent

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8 Tracy Beaker

9 Derby

10 Fermat’s Last Theorem. It was won in 1997 by Andrew Wiles

11 Martin Amis

12 DeepL Translate

13 Duralumin

14 Futsal

15 Phantom Thread

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