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The Times Daily Quiz: Wednesday February 8, 2023

Fifteen questions to get you thinking. The answers are below
Various Bubble Tea in a plastic cups with drink straws on blue background. Take away drinks concept.
Q15: Originating in Taiwan in the 1980s, which drink is this?
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Challenge yourself with today’s puzzles.


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1 Which term for a native of Liverpool is derived from a type of stew?

2 Breathing through gills, what is the tailed aquatic larva of a frog or toad called?

3 What land warfare force includes around 4,000 Gurkhas?

4 Written by Einhard, Vita Karoli Magni is a biography of which Holy Roman emperor?

5 AA Milne’s book Now We Are Six features “decorations” by which illustrator?

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6 Which late Supermarket Sweep and In It to Win It host has a cameo in the film Trainspotting?

7 Dave Ward is the general secretary of which trade union?

8 The Epley manoeuvre is an exercise that relieves dizziness caused by BPPV or benign paroxysmal positional what?

9 The tableau Étant donnés (Given States) (1946-66) is which French artist’s last major artwork?

10 I’m Bad was the first single from which US rapper’s 1987 album Bigger and Deffer aka BAD?

11 The 1995 movie A Fistful of Fingers is the feature-length directorial debut of which English filmmaker?

12 The MP who served continuously for the longest, who sat in the House of Commons from 1835 to 1898?

13 In which Don DeLillo novel is Gary Harkness a Logos College football player obsessed with nuclear war?

14 In rugby union, which concussion check system is abbreviated HIA?

15 Originating in Taiwan in the 1980s, which drink is pictured?


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Answers
1 Scouser

2 Tadpole or polliwog

3 British Army

4 Charlemagne

5 Ernest H Shepard

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6 Dale Winton

7 Communications Workers Union (CWU)

8 Vertigo

9 Marcel Duchamp

10 LL Cool J

11 Edgar Wright

12 Charles Pelham Villiers

13 End Zone

14 Head injury assessment

15 Bubble tea or boba

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