MINDGAMES
The Times Daily Quiz: Tuesday May 23, 2023
Fifteen questions to get you thinking. The answers are below
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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