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The Times Daily Quiz: Tuesday July 16, 2024

Fifteen questions to get you thinking. The answers are below
Q15: Which giant creature of Scandinavian folklore is this?
Q15: Which giant creature of Scandinavian folklore is this?
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Puzzles

Challenge yourself with today’s puzzles.


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Crossword


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Sudoku


1 Gareth Roberts’s 2006 novella I Am a Dalek is based on which TV series?

2 Which Swedish environmental activist wrote The Climate Book (2023)?

3 The 2009 Ken Loach film Looking for Eric stars which retired French footballer?

4 In 1162, who did Henry II appoint to be Archbishop of Canterbury?

5 Which Swedish carmaker used the tagline “tested by dummies, driven by the intelligent” for the 340?

6 Which comedy duo were first paired as comedy leads in the American silent short Duck Soup (1927)?

7 In the Verdi opera La Traviata, Violetta Valéry dies of which infectious disease?

8 Which island in the North Atlantic Ocean is the world’s least densely populated territory?

9 In 1992, the journalist Barbara Amiel married