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The Times Daily Quiz: Friday August 15, 2025
1 Lisa Loring played Wednesday Addams in which 1960s US sitcom?
2 After discovering white nougat, Theodor Tobler and Emil Baumann invented which 'unique chocolate bar'?
3 First published in 1854, The Orcadian is the oldest newspaper in which Scottish archipelago?
4 Which queen was the last ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt?
5 In an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, who is called 'the new world Madonna with the golden touch'?
6 Which long flat bone of the human body is also known as the breastbone?
7 George Fenton and which Indian sitar player received a best original score Oscar nomination for Gandhi?
8 The title of James Goldman's play The Lion in Winter refers to which Plantagenet king?
9 Which Merseybeat band had a 1964 No 1 with Don't Throw Your Love Away?
10 Historically known as Sanhit, Keren is the second-largest city in which country in the Horn of Africa?
11 Concorde made its last-ever flight on November 26, 2003, departing Heathrow and landing in which city?
12 Henry Fonda and John Ford's friendship ended when the director punched Fonda on the set of which film?
13 Which firm, based in Holbeck, Leeds, was the world's biggest flat cap maker during the 1920s?
14 R360 is a proposed breakaway league in which team sport?
15 Which Ray Alan ventriloquist dummy is pictured?Scroll down for answersAnswers1 The Addams Family
2 Toblerone
3 Orkney
4 Cleopatra (VII)
5 Evita or Eva Perón, in the song Rainbow Tour
6 Sternum
7 Ravi Shankar
8 Henry II
9 The Searchers
10 Eritrea
11 Bristol, at Filton Airfield
12 Mister Roberts
13 JW Myers
14 Rugby union
15 Lord Charles
