It's time to kickstart your week with a mental workout. Our regular Monday quiz is here to test your knowledge across a wide range of topics, from classic literature and blockbuster films to music history and culinary inventions.
This Week's Brain Teasers
Ready for the challenge? Today's selection of questions will have you digging deep into your memory banks. We begin with the word of the day: Antithetical, meaning directly opposed or mutually incompatible.
The questions cover diverse ground: can you identify the fruit that flavours the alcoholic drink Mirabelle? Which of Jane Austen's novels features the character Anne Elliot? Do you know the stage name of rock musician Marvin Lee Aday?
Film buffs are tested with a James Bond query: in which 007 movie does Kissy Suzuki appear? Music lovers must recall UK top ten hits with the word 'TOWN' in the title by artists like Del Shannon, U2 with B.B. King, and Billy Joel.
Further puzzles ask for the name of Hamlet's mother in Shakespeare's famous tragedy, the English county where the Battle of Flodden was fought in 1513, and the convenience food invented by Edward Asselbergs in 1941. The round concludes with the nationality of surrealist painter René Magritte and the name of the bumbling secret agent played by Rowan Atkinson in several films.
Last Week's Answers Revealed
If you tackled our previous quiz from January 11th, here's how you might have scored. The food and drink section revealed that chefs call pepper 'The Master Spice', Prosciutto is Parma Ham, and a Tayberry is a hybrid of a raspberry and a blackberry. A standard pack of Dairy Lea triangles contains eight portions.
In the TV, movies, and entertainment category, we learned that Jennifer Aniston was 25 in the first episode of Friends in 1994. The name 'Jolene' is repeated 21 times in Dolly Parton's hit song. David Suchet first appeared as Hercule Poirot on ITV on January 8, 1989, and the BBC sitcom 'Bread' debuted on May 1, 1986.
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Whether you aced every question or discovered some surprising gaps in your knowledge, these weekly puzzles are a fun way to learn new facts and revisit old ones. How many did you get right today?
