25-07-2025
The Times Daily Quiz: Thursday July 24, 2025
1 In the northern hemisphere, the longest day of the year occurs during which season?
2 The 1920 novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles introduced which Belgian detective?
3 The honey type of which social insect performs the waggle dance?
4 Starring Dawn French in the title role, which BBC sitcom returned for three 'lockdown' episodes in 2020?
5 Developed in Spain, a Kumato is a variety of which fruit?
6 The River Aire joins the River Ouse at Airmyn in the East Riding of where?
7 In which capital city did Karl Marx die in 1883?
8 The Devil Wears Prada author Lauren Weisberger worked as an assistant to which Vogue editor-in-chief?
9 Marco Bellocchio's 2003 film Good Morning, Night reimagines the 1978 kidnapping of which former Italian prime minister?
10 Who shared the 1951 Nobel prize in physics with Ernest Walton for their work in splitting the atom?
11 In 1996, which Birmingham band had hits with You've Got It Bad and The Day We Caught the Train?
12 Mentioned by Shakespeare in Henry VI, Part 2, charneco is a Portuguese what?
13 Which Spanish cartographer (d 1510) was the owner and master of Columbus's flagship, the Santa María?
14 Which Italian dish completes the name of the card game Taco Cat Goat Cheese …?
15 Which sport is pictured?
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Answers
1 Summer — the summer solstice is in June
2 Hercule Poirot
3 Bee
4 The Vicar of Dibley
5 Tomato
6 Yorkshire
7 London
8 Anna Wintour
9 Aldo Moro
10 John Cockcroft
11 Ocean Colour Scene
12 Wine
13 Juan de la Cosa, who created possibly the first map to depict the New World
14 Pizza
15 Elephant polo
