02-08-2025
The Times Saturday Quiz: August 2, 2025
1 According to the saying, 'the early bird catches the …' what?
2 Which day happens every four years because of a mismatch between the calendar year and Earth's orbit?
3 Made with steamed milk, a cortado is a Spanish type of which hot drink?
4 In 1974, the meteorologist Barbara Edwards became the BBC's first female what?
5 The Reason Why (1953) is Cecil Woodham-Smith's study of which 1854 military disaster?
6 The chattel form of which practice means that one person has total ownership of another?
7 Born at Wantage in around 849, who is the only English monarch known as 'the Great'?
8 What was the two-word nickname of the legendary Wild West frontierswoman Martha Jane Canary?
9 In November 1978, Blondie became the first cover stars of which British pop music magazine?
10 What shape is something described as 'lachrymiform'?
11 In 2018, Radiohead sued Lana Del Rey over similarities between her song Get Free and which 1992 single?
12 Which French theme park features the rollercoasters Pégase Express, Goudurix and Toutatis?
13 At 852 feet above sea level, Coombe Hill is the highest point in which English hills?
14 Act III of which comic opera by Donizetti features the servants' chorus?
15 Which 1973 Alan Bennett play was first staged with Alec Guinness in the role of GP Arthur Wicksteed?
16 Founder of the Manhattan nightclub Arthur, which Welsh actress was Richard Burton's first wife?
17 Which US filmmaker wrote All Fours (2024), 'the first great perimenopause novel'?
18 In 1955, who set his first world water speed record on Ullswater?
19 Which US footballer gained a world record 354th and final cap against Mexico in a 2010 World Cup qualifier?
20 Which row of three chalk stacks is pictured?
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Answers
1 Worm
2 Leap day or February 29
3 Coffee
4 Television weather presenter or weather forecaster
5 Charge of the Light Brigade
6 Slavery
7 Alfred the Great
8 Calamity Jane
9 Smash Hits
10 Teardrop or tear-shaped
11 Creep
12 Parc Astérix
13 Chilterns
14 Don Pasquale
15 Habeas Corpus
16 Sybil Christopher
17 Miranda July
18 Donald Campbell, with the hydroplane Bluebird K7
19 Kristine Lilly
20 The Needles, Isle of Wight
