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What links Corinne Bailey Rae and Keir Starmer? The Saturday quiz

29 August 2026 at 09:00

From ‘rocks, but gently’ to Ainu in Asia and Zuni in the US, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz

1 Which design illustrates the tragic love story of Koong-Se and Chang?
2 Which British woman was nominated for all four Egot awards, but didn’t win any?
3 The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art is in which country?
4 Which Shakespeare play opens in Africa?
5 Which football stadium is officially the Estádio Jornalista Mário Filho?
6 The sun’s nuclear fusion is primarily fuelled by which element?
7 Which naval dockyard closed in 1984 after more than 400 years?
8 Who “rocks, but gently” in a 1967 album title?
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Jari Hill, Tanggula mountains; Chongqing; Wuhan; Nanjing; Shanghai?
10 F&F; George; Nutmeg; Tu?
11 Eva Boyd, Victoria Hesketh; Richard Penniman; Steven Van Zandt?
12 New York; Pennsylvania; Hawaii; Connecticut; Arkansas?
13 Alveolar process; mental protuberance; mental spines; oblique line?
14 Brownlee brothers; Mark Knopfler; Corinne Bailey Rae; Keir Starmer; Jack Straw?
15 Ainu in Asia; Basque in Europe; Sandawe in Africa; Zuni in the US?

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© Photograph: Joseph Okpako/WireImage

© Photograph: Joseph Okpako/WireImage

© Photograph: Joseph Okpako/WireImage

Why is the grass green and which was the deadliest dinosaur? The kids’ quiz

29 August 2026 at 09:00

Five multiple-choice questions – set by children – to test your knowledge, and a chance to submit your own junior brainteasers for future quizzes

Molly Oldfield hosts Everything Under the Sun, a podcast answering children’s questions. Do check out her books, Everything Under the Sun and Everything Under the Sun: Quiz Book, as well as her new title, Everything Under the Sun: All Around the World.

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© Illustration: Hennie Haworth/The Guardian

© Illustration: Hennie Haworth/The Guardian

© Illustration: Hennie Haworth/The Guardian

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