The Times Daily Quiz: Tuesday May 23, 2023

1 The Middle Ages are often said to have begun with the 5th-century collapse of which empire?

2 The Bushtucker Bonanza is an eating trial in which ITV show?

3 Which capital city’s Tverskaya Street was formerly named after Maxim Gorky?

4 Walter Scott declined which honorary position in 1813?

5 Which country’s name is likely to come from a Huron-Iroquois word meaning “village” or “settlement”?

6 Sharing its name with an ocean, what is the largest of the world’s tectonic plates?

7 The Welsh singer Dorothy Squires was the second wife of which James Bond actor?

8 Allen Millyard is a renowned custom builder of which vehicles?

9 The Irish soldier John King was the sole survivor of which ill-fated expedition of 1860-61?

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