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The Times Daily Quiz: Friday January 6, 2023

Fifteen questions to get you thinking. The answers are below
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Q15: Who is this British chemist and astronaut?
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Challenge yourself with today’s puzzles.


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1 Meaning “may you live ten thousand years”, “Banzai!” is a war cry in which language?

2 The second edition was published in 1989. The third may never appear in print. Which dictionary?

3 In 1982, which Atlanta-based soft drinks giant purchase the film studio Columbia Pictures?

4 Which Apple smartphone was first released in the US in June 2007?

5 John Flamsteed’s posthumously published Historia Coelestis Britannica (1725) included a catalogue of 2,935 what?

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6 The New Zealand mountain Aoraki also has which English name?

7 Which 1916 naval battle pitted 151 British warships against 99 German ships?

8 Which prime minister wrote the anti-Catholic pamphlet The Vatican Decrees in their Bearing on Civil Allegiance (1874)?

9 In 1979, which Nazi physician was buried under the name of Wolfgang Gerhard in Embu das Artes, Brazil?

10 Which 1963 Akira Kurosawa film was adapted from Ed McBain’s detective novel King’s Ransom?

11 Which London gallery was founded in 1946 by Frank Lloyd and Harry Fischer?

12 Found at 89 Jermyn Street, London, which perfumer’s Ledger Series includes Malmaison Encore, Red Rose and Vetiver?

13 Which identical twins played Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield in the 1990s TV teen drama Sweet Valley High?

14 Floyd Patterson beat which English boxer in a May 1959 world heavyweight title fight?

15 Which British chemist and astronaut is pictured?


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Answers
1 Japanese

2 Oxford English Dictionary

3 The Coca-Cola Company

4 iPhone

5 Stars

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6 Mount Cook

7 Battle of Jutland

8 William Ewart Gladstone

9 Josef Mengele

10 High and Low

11 Marlborough Fine Art

12 Floris

13 Brittany and Cynthia Daniel

14 Brian London

15 Helen Sharman

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