The Times Daily Quiz: Friday July 11, 2025
2 The stainless type of which alloy was created in a Sheffield laboratory in 1913?
3 In which year did the Second World War end?
4 The Royal Mile has been called 'the spine' of which capital city's Old Town?
5 An anvil is the famous symbol of weddings in which Scottish village?
6 Which role in the original Star Trek TV series was turned down by Martin Landau?
7 The beginning of which Chumbawamba hit samples a Pete Postlethwaite speech from the film Brassed Off?
8 Which future president of Ireland escaped from Lincoln Prison on February 3, 1919?
9 In which superhero comic strip did Eric Wimp, an ordinary schoolboy, live at 29 Acacia Road, Nuttytown?
10 Which shuttle line of the London Underground is nicknamed 'the Drain'?
11 In 1819, Caspar David Friedrich first painted Two Men Contemplating the … what?
12 Which Swedish composer won Oscars for scoring the films Black Panther and Oppenheimer?
13 Starring Peter Sellers, the 1962 film Only Two Can Play is based on which Kingsley Amis novel?
14 Which Scottish race car driver was married to the US actress Ashley Judd from 2001 to 2013?
15 Which member of the House of Lords is pictured?
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1 Beef
2 Steel, by Harry Brearley
3 1945
4 Edinburgh
5 Gretna Green
6 Spock
7 Tubthumping
8 Éamon de Valera
9 Bananaman. Nuttytown was changed to Dandytown after Nutty comic merged with The Dandy
10 Waterloo & City line
11 Moon
12 Ludwig Göransson
13 That Uncertain Feeling
14 Dario Franchitti
15 Peter Mandelson. He is the British ambassador to the United States
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