From Divine, Frank Fiegel and Helen Kane to the West Sussex estate pioneering rewilding, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz

1 Which classic of political theory was dedicated to Lorenzo de Medici?
2 What is the only jazz act to win the Mercury Music prize?
3 Spanish is an official language of which African country?
4 What 2026 release is said to be the most expensive entertainment product ever created?
5 Which West Sussex estate is a pioneer of rewilding?
6 Which gas is named from the Greek for “lazy”?
7 US doctor Sara Cohen writes bestsellers under what pseudonym?
8 Which coffee chain was founded in London in 1971?
What links:
9 c 6000BC; 79; 512; 1631; 1906; 1944?
10 Divine (witch); Frank Fiegel (sailor); Helen Kane (flapper); The Beatles (vultures)?
11 Mark Brown; Mo Johnston; Kenny Miller; Steven Pressley?
12 Bag; dismiss; plunder; sherry for Falstaff?
13 Caring; Elvis; Famous Five; Revenge; Travolta?
14 Grease; A Chorus Line; Cats; The Phantom of the Opera (currently)?
15 Martin Gilbert; Roy Jenkins; William Manchester; Andrew Roberts?

Five multiple-choice questions – set by children – to test your knowledge, and a chance to submit your own junior brainteasers for future quizzes

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Molly Oldfield hosts Everything Under the Sun, a podcast answering children’s questions. Do check out her books, Everything Under the Sun and Everything Under the Sun: Quiz Book, as well as her new title, Everything Under the Sun: All Around the World.

From talking horses and savage humans to Home Alone, The Fugitive and The Untouchables, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz

1 Which high-profile US politician used to rap as Mr Cardamom?
2 What is Anguilla’s lucrative internet domain?
3 Ostalgie is the yearning for aspects of life in which former country?
4 Which church is recreated in Lego’s largest set?
5 Which siblings lived at Dove Cottage, Grasmere?
6 How did Saffie Osborne make horse racing history in September?
7 Which challenge starts near Fort William and ends on Yr Wyddfa?
8 Which TV historian was at school with Gazza?
What links:
9 Benjamin Franklin; Francis Moore; Joseph Whitaker; John Wisden?
10 Lily Snowden-Fine; Cecily Bloom; Harley Bird; Amelie Bea Smith?
11 Burgundy; Aviz; Habsburg; Braganza?
12 First of Shawwal and tenth of Dhul-Hijjah?
13 Tiny people; giant people; impractical intellectuals; talking horses; savage humans?
14 Ketchup; blood; paint; quicksand; silly putty; toothpaste?
15 Ferris Bueller’s Day Off; Home Alone; The Fugitive; The Untouchables?

Test yourself on topical news trivia, pop culture and general knowledge every Thursday. How will you fare?

Having reached 55 years around the sun, your quiz master was spoiled this week with ludicrously elaborate cocktails by his partner, and as a result vowed to deliver a grand, wildly complex set of questions.

Naturally, as the hangover kicked in, that ambition faded immediately: so it is 15 questions of news, bizarre facts and standard Thursday nonsense as usual. Allons-y!