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The Times Saturday Quiz: July 12, 2025
1 A nitrometer is used to measure amounts of which chemical element?
2 The First World War memorial to the 'Pompey Pals' is located at Fratton Park in which city?
3 The word 'impecunious' means having very little … what?
4 Cochon d'inde is a French name for which pet rodent?
5 In December 2003, Paul Bremer announced: 'Ladies and gentlemen, we've got him,' about which dictator?
6 In 1936, Freda Monk became the first ever guest at which holiday camp in Skegness?
7 Which 1954 film adaptation of a novella by George Orwell was Britain's first animated feature, made with covert CIA funds?
8 Norman Mailer called which disease 'a revolt of the cells, a growth against the design of my organs'?
9 In 1968, Tony Elliott founded which listings magazine with £70 during a summer break from Keele University?
10 Susan Boyle's 2009 debut single Wild Horses was a cover of a song by which band?
11 The US tech company Palantir is named after a 'seeing stone' in which English writer's works?
12 The first series of the TV show Auf Wiedersehen, Pet was primarily set in which German city?
13 Which Lancashire town is home to the Haworth Art Gallery?
14 A chef's toque is a tall hat that traditionally has how many pleats?
15 Which British novelist wrote the thrillers The Woman in Cabin 10 (2016) and Zero Days (2023)?
16 In 1950, which US astronomer proposed the 'dirty snowball' model for comet nuclei?
17 In 1925, which Bulgarian revolutionary was assassinated by Mencha Karnicheva at Vienna's Burgtheater?
18 Which London football club is supported by Keir Starmer, Jeremy Corbyn, Diane Abbott and Priti Patel?
19 In 1980, which Soviet gymnast became the first person to win eight medals in one Olympics Games?
20 Which West End musical is pictured?
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Answers
1 Nitrogen
2 Portsmouth
3 Money
4 Guinea pig
5 Saddam Hussein
6 Butlin's. She was so keen to attend that she arrived the day before it opened to the public
7 Animal Farm
8 Cancer
9 Time Out
10 Rolling Stones
11 JRR Tolkien
12 Düsseldorf
13 Accrington
14 A hundred, representing the number of ways to prepare eggs
15 Ruth Ware
16 Fred Whipple
17 Todor Panitsa
18 Arsenal
19 Aleksandr Dityatin
20 Six
