Ready for a mental workout? This week's Sunday Quiz serves up a delicious and diverse platter of questions, testing your expertise on everything from global cuisine to the animal kingdom.
Food and Drink Conundrums
The culinary section kicks off with a teaser about Blanket, Honeycomb, and Bible, asking what type of food these all describe. Coffee lovers are challenged to recall how many stars feature on the iconic Starbucks logo. The quiz also travels the globe, probing the main ingredient in the classic French dish "a la Crecy" and the specific meat used for an authentic Wiener Schnitzel (it must be cut to 4mm).
Spanish vocabulary comes into play with questions on La Frambuesa and La Almeja. Foodies must also ponder the significant role of Iran in the pistachio industry and identify the key ingredient, besides chillis, in Mexico's famous mole paste. Rounding off the food focus are queries on the Spanish dish Albóndigas and the variety of the fruit known as a Laxton's Superb.
Animals and Nature Puzzles
The natural world provides the next batch of brain teasers. Can you define what makes a mammal Edentate? Do you know the common name for the marine animal Asteroidea? The quiz introduces the Chuckwalla and asks for its creature type, while also questioning the average lifespan of a common frog.
More Spanish translations test your knowledge of sea creatures, asking what Una Medusa refers to. Birdwatchers are asked to identify the better-known name for the Pica-Pica bird. The final natural history questions delve into prehistoric life with the Archelon, query the number of neck vertebrae in mammals, name the type of sea creature a Cowrie is, and finally, seek the poetic collective noun for a group of elephants.
Last Week's Answers Revealed
For those who tackled the previous quiz, the answers for January 3rd are now available. The general knowledge round revealed that Rubellite is a red gemstone and King Charles II was on the throne during the Great Fire of London. It confirmed Vincent Van Gogh was Dutch and the Grand Canyon is in Arizona.
The round also explained that a "Porky" is Cockney rhyming slang for a lie, named the spaceship in Alien as the Nostromo, and defined Dry Ice as solid carbon dioxide. The highest poker hand is a Royal Flush, Harold Macmillan succeeded Anthony Eden as PM, and the chemical symbol for Chlorine is Cl.
The cryptic book title challenge was solved with answers including The Godfather, Oliver Twist, No Country for Old Men, and Gone with the Wind, among others.
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