The Times Daily Quiz: Thursday July 17, 2025
2 A pink cabbage rose was the signature flower of which queen of France (1755-93)?
3 Located in Kagoshima prefecture, Sakurajima is which country's most active volcano?
4 In 2020, Tim Davie succeeded Tony Hall as director general of which public service broadcaster?
5 American former ballerina Melanie Hamrick is engaged to which Rolling Stones member?
6 Wedged between Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire, what is England's smallest historic county?
7 Which retired England footballer was People magazine's 'sexiest man alive' in 2015?
8 In 1982, Sunderland's the Toy Dolls became the first band to play live on which Channel 4 show?
9 Who wrote Blue Remembered Hills , a 1979 Play for Today?
10 The July Revolution (2024) was a pro-democracy mass uprising in which Asian country?
11 In 2024, Pierpaolo Piccioli stepped down as creative director of which Italian fashion house?
12 Which president was Kaiser Wilhelm II's successor as Germany's head of state?
13 The posthumously published The Double Tongue (1995) is the final novel of which Nobel laureate?
14 Which American was the first female tennis player to pass $1 million in career earnings?
15 First presented to the world in 2002, which Lamborghini supercar is pictured?
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1 Sausages
2 Marie Antoinette
3 Japan
4 BBC
5 Mick Jagger
6 Rutland
7 David Beckham
8 The Tube
9 Dennis Potter
10 Bangladesh
11 Valentino
12 Friedrich Ebert, who was the first president of the Weimar Republic
13 William Golding
14 Chris Evert, in 1976
15 Murciélago
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