THE SUNDAY QUIZ

Football team FC Seoul of South Korea’s top-flight K League have apologised to real fans after many noticed that “spectators” at their televised behind-closeddoors match last weekend were in fact… (a) Soldiers

(b) Computer-generated images

(c) Sex dolls

Billy Jones, pastor of Dunseverick in Northern Ireland, plans to lead a service this weekend from…

(a) A lorry

(b) The church roof (c) Currys PC World

The late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro consumed 15 to 20 servings a day of what?

(a) Ice cream

(b) Rum

(c) Black coffee

In a new coinage, many Germans complain of “Covidspeck”. To what do they refer?

(a) Media speculation

(b) Lard around the middle (c) Gym boredom

South Pavilion, the elegant Buckinghamshire house lived in for many years by Sir John Gielgud and also Sir Arthur Bryant, is now owned by which celebrity political couple?

(a) Tony and Cherie Blair (b) David and Samantha Cameron

(c) Donald and Melania Trump

Animal Dynamics, a technology company spun out of Oxford University, has developed a drone with a flying style modelled on which creature?

(a) Bee hummingbird (b) Barn owl

(c) Peregrine falcon

Because of its Protected Designation of Origin status, which English cheese may only be made in the three counties of Leicestershire,

Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire?

(a) Lymeswold

(b) Stilton

(c) Sage Derby

Vanessa Branson is an English entrepreneur and the younger sister of Virgin founder Richard. Who was her biology teacher?

(a) Hugh Cornwell of the Stranglers

(b) Gordon Sumner, aka Sting

(c) Mike (Tubular Bells) Oldfield

According to a major insurance company, thefts of which item have increased by 50 per cent during the UK’s lockdown period?

(a) Thermometers

(b) Laptops

(c) Bicycles

10

“It was like fighting the Battle of the Alamo,” recalled a veteran, of their recent travails. What had they been doing to prompt such a comparison? (a) Attempting to buy flour at a supermarket

(b) Recording The Archers

(c) Storming the border with Cornwall

11

Which French cultural icon could drink 20 bottles of beaujolais in a single day and eat everything from the menu in a restaurant at just one sitting, but found it impossible to ride a horse?

(a) Gérard Depardieu

(b) Obelix the Gaul

(c) André the Giant 12

Love Beyond Walls, a non-profit venture in the United States, aims to help the homeless by offering portable…

(a) Lavatories

(b) Sinks

(c) Jacuzzis

13

The Duke of Cambridge will question the enduring purpose of a staple of British life in a forthcoming documentary. What?

(a) Marmite

(b) The Changing of the Guard

(c) The stiff upper lip

14

Last century, the BBC produced television versions of this work in the Fifties, Sixties, Eighties and in 1999. A further version followed in 2011, and now there is to be yet another. What is it?

(a) Great Expectations

(b) Murder on the Orient Express

(c) Hamlet

15

A man known only as Django faces a fine of approximately £14,500 from authorities in Australia for doing what?

(a) Spraying graffiti on Sydney Opera House

(b) Freeing a trapped whale

(c) Climbing Uluru (formerly known as Ayers Rock)