Quiz Questions and Answers
The Saturday quiz featured 15 questions spanning various topics. Among them, question six asked: "Which awards were founded by the late Kanya King?" The answer is the MOBO awards, established by Kanya King in 1996 to celebrate music of black origin.
Other Quiz Highlights
The quiz also included questions such as: What is the UK’s single most dispensed medicine? (Atorvastatin); Fólkvangr was the alternative destination to where? (Valhalla); In June 2026, which pottery firm ended production after 217 years? (Denby); Which religion’s calendar is determined by moon sighting committees? (Islam); The Filipino Efren Reyes is considered the GOAT of what indoor game? (Pool); Which Cossack inspired works by Byron, Pushkin, Liszt and Tchaikovsky? (Ivan Mazepa); Which US state is said to have been ruled by six flags? (Texas).
Link Questions
The quiz also included link questions: Black-footed; Fishing; Geoffroy’s; Pallas’s; Sand? (Small wild cats); Countdown; The Body Show; Brookside; Walter; Five Go Mad in Dorset? (Programmes shown on the launch day of Channel 4); Hjalmar Schacht; Franz von Papen; Hans Fritzsche? (Acquitted at the Nuremberg trials); Murchison Promontory, Nunavut; Cape Nordkinn, Finnmark; Cape Chelyuskin, Siberia? (Most northerly points: North America, Europe, Asia); Little Miss Sunshine; Barbie and White Noise; The Hurt Locker and Titanic? (Films whose directors are/were married); Adversary; Agent; Garden; History; Pilgrim? (Novels titled The Secret...); Rome, 390BC; Ballantine’s warehouse, Dumbarton; São Pedro de Alcântara prison, Brazil? (Guarded by geese).
