The Times Daily Quiz: Wednesday April 30, 2025
1 The political party Plaid Cymru has its headquarters in which capital city?
2 Which brand's tomato ketchup is made to exit its 'iconic' glass bottle at 0.028 miles per hour?
3 The Scots words 'wean' and 'bairn' both refer to which people?
4 To secure England's frontiers, which king invaded Scotland in 1072 and Wales in 1081?
5 Which chart-topping Welsh singer (b 1940) first performed as Tommy Scott?
6 What did Laurence Olivier call an 'anaemic little medium which could not stand great acting'?
7 A line in the Rolliad, 'A kingdom trusted to a school-boy's care', refers to which prime minister?
8 The next transit of which planet will not take place until 2117?
9 The idea of which children's book
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