Hemingway’s fish, Pioneer’s planet and Zendaya’s past – take the Thursday quiz

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The quiz grasp has been away, however the second has been ready for. Educated otters had been noticed within the canal by the Guardian’s London workplace earlier this week, signalling 15 not significantly topical questions in semaphore up on the home windows so that you simply, pricey reader, don’t should go with out a quiz, not even for one week. There aren't any prizes. It's only for enjoyable. Tell us the way you get on within the feedback, the place you can too complain about common options being lacking.

The Thursday quiz, No 71

1.ON THIS DAY: Earlier than heading out into deep house to grow to be very chilly and lonely, on 1 September 1979 the house probe Pioneer 11 made its closest strategy to which planet?
2.LITERATURE: Right now additionally marks the anniversary of the publication of Ernest Hemingway's Pulitzer Prize successful novel a couple of Cuban fisherman and his days-long battle to land a prize marlin. What's it referred to as?
3.HAPPY BIRTHDAY: It's Zendaya's birthday right this moment. Completely happy birthday, Zendaya! In addition to showing in Dune and the Spider-Man films, she was the primary star of which Disney Channel sitcom?
4.HAPPY BIRTHDAY (SLIGHT RETURN): Are you aware who else has a birthday right this moment? Bruce Foxton. Completely happy birthday Bruce. However who did he used to play bass guitar for?
5.SWEET BABY CHEESES: Which one in every of these choices is NOT a wide range of cheese produced in Eire?
6.GCSE SCIENCE CORNER: The electrolysis of copper sulfate resolution makes two merchandise, one at every electrode. The damaging electrode provides off copper. What does the optimistic electrode give off?
7.AYES TO THE RIGHT: The Senate is the higher home of the bicameral Parliament of Australia. What number of senators are there?
8.1966 AND ALL THAT: A collection of questions that are not about soccer main as much as the 2022 Fifa World Cup in Qatar, which might't be held on the time of 12 months they really gained the bid for. The 1970 Fifa World Cup was in Mexico. The Mexican nationwide anthem is understood by its opening line. What's it?
9.WEIRD WORDS: In line with the Collins dictionary on-line, which of those phrases is utilized in botany and zoology to explain one thing as 'having dartlike spines'?
10.TAMMY'S TEASER: Tammy Wynette had a success single with D-I-V-O-R-C-E in 1968. However which V is a graphic novel by Alan Moore ?
11.GREAT FIRE BURNING: What number of metres excessive is the Monument to the Nice Hearth of London on the junction of Monument Avenue and Fish Avenue Hill?
12.LITERATURE (AGAIN): Who wrote the 2003 novel The Kite Runner?
13.PLEASE JUST WRITE 'QUIZ MASTER' ON THE CUP: World anti-union bland-coffee chain Starbucks opened its first retailer in Seattle. When?
14.THAT'S NOT MY NAME: That was a success for the Tings Tings (pictured – effectively one in every of them anyway). However which legendary showman was born as Erik Weisz?
15.IT'S A DOG'S LIFE: That is Willow, the official canine of the Guardian's Thursday quiz. That is her face after she has simply listened to Previous Shep, a tune a couple of canine who has 'gone the place the nice doggies go'. Who famously recorded it in 1956?

  • When you do suppose there was an egregious error in one of many questions or solutions, please be at liberty to e-mail martin.belam@theguardian.com, however genuinely, it's really his first day again after a few weeks away so he has in all probability deleted all of his unread e-mail on the idea that if it was that necessary, folks will get again to him. And folks quibbling about questions just isn't excessive on his listing.

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