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The Times Daily Quiz: Thursday June 26, 2025
1 Boxing Day falls on which date?
2 Which planet in our solar system comes first alphabetically?
3 In the 1980s, Gareth Hunt advertised which instant coffee brand?
4 Which term for road tax is abbreviated VED?
5 According to Roman mythology, a woodpecker fed which twins when they were infants?
6 The Scottish folk song Will Ye No Come Back Again? commemorates which 'Young Pretender'?
7 Which Channel 4 comedy-drama was set on the fictional Chatsworth council estate in Manchester?
8 The play adapted from which ghost story by Susan Hill opened in the West End in 1989?
9 Who directed a feature-length film adaptation of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost in 2000?
10 The band Madness took their name from a song by which Jamaican ska legend?
11 Who wrote the Wessex novels Wolf Solent (1929) and A Glastonbury Romance (1932)?
12 In 2002, Kaspar Basse founded which chain of juice bars in Copenhagen?
13 Which Japanese manga artist is known for creating the series Fire Punch and Chainsaw Man?
14 In 1978, which country became the first African or Arab nation to win a Fifa World Cup match?
15 The statues pictured are part of which enormous cache of clay sculptures?
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1 December 26
2 Earth
3 Nescafé
4 Vehicle excise duty
5 Romulus and Remus
6 Bonnie Prince Charlie or Charles Edward Stuart
7 Shameless
8 The Woman in Black. It was adapted by Stephen Mallatratt
9 Kenneth Branagh
10 Prince Buster
11 John Cowper Powys
12 Joe & the Juice
13 Tatsuki Fujimoto
14 Tunisia. The team beat Mexico 3-1 in their first match in the competition
15 Terracotta Army or terracotta warriors
