Weekly Quiz #6
A free weekly 20-question general knowledge quiz!
Welcome to the sixth weekly quiz!
As always, we’re aiming for interesting questions that could come up in future quizzes across a range of difficulties and topic areas: new stuff, traditional quiz areas, “I should know this but I don’t” questions. Enjoy.
Questions
In the news
Which singer’s October 2025 album West End Girl chronicles the breakdown of her marriage with actor David Harbour?
Which country won their first Women’s Cricket World Cup with a victory over South Africa in last week’s final?
The Impossible Fortune is the fifth book in which murder mystery series featuring four elderly residents of a UK retirement village?
With 50.4% of the vote, who was elected mayor of New York city last week?
Set for release this week, Glen Powell stars as Ben Richards in which film, in which contestants try to stay alive for 30 days while being hunted to win a grand prize? Arnold Schwarzenegger played the same role in a 1987 film of the same name.
Chess.com recently announced that the trophy for its online Speed Chess Championship will be renamed after which prominent American chess grandmaster and streamer who died last month, aged just 29?
The 2026 Winter Olympics will be held in Milan and which Italian ski resort town around 250 miles away?
Mixed bag
Which two planets of the Solar System have no known moons?
Sharing its name with the largest ethnic group in the world, what imperial dynasty ruled China at the time that Julius Caesar was assassinated in Rome?
What two-digit number is missing from the following film titles?
Stalag __ (1953), a war film directed by Billy Wilder and starring William Holden;
Mickey __ (2025), a science fiction film directed by Bong Joon Ho and starring Robert Pattinson.Alpha-tocopherol and gamma-tocopherol are common forms of which vitamin?
Between November 1984 and June 1985, Jennifer Rush, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, and Huey Lewis and the News all released different hit songs with what same four-word title?
Free State, North West, and Gauteng are provinces in which country?
The Hungarian Rhapsodies are a set of 19 piano pieces published between 1851 and 1886 by which composer and virtuoso pianist?
The 1887 novel A Study in Scarlet is the first appearance of which character, who has appeared on screen over 200 times?
Pictures
This is Hallgrímskirkja, the tallest building in which national capital city?
What seven-letter word refers to the selection of small shared side dishes that are regularly served in Korean cuisine?
This is an image of which bird endemic to New Zealand, the world’s only flightless parrot?
This hand-operated tool is used on which part of the body?
Known for his trademark wide-brimmed jungle hat, Yoweri Museveni has served as the president of which East African nation since 1986?
And that’s this week’s quiz! I hope you enjoyed it.
Answers
Lily Allen. Allen’s first album since 2018’s No Shame, West End Girl is “a gobsmacking autopsy of marital betrayal”. While it does not mention David Harbour by name, Allen told British Vogue, “There are things that are on the record that I experienced . . . but that’s not to say that it’s all gospel. It is inspired by what went on in the relationship.”
India. All-rounder Deepti Sharma scored 58 runs and took five wickets in the final, on her way to being named player of the tournament. Her 22 wickets were the most of any bowler at the World Cup, 5 ahead of Australia’s Annabel Sutherland in second.
The Thursday Murder Club. The first book in Richard Osman’s series also had a film adaptation this year, starring Celia Imrie, Helen Mirren, Ben Kingsley and Pierce Brosnan.
Zohran Mamdani. The Uganda-born Mamdani became the first candidate since 1969 to receive over one million votes, and the youngest mayor-elect in the city since Hugh J. Grant in 1889.
The Running Man. Both films are adapted from a 1982 novel by Stephen King.
Daniel Naroditsky. The popular streamer, commentator and speed chess specialist was tragically found unresponsive at his home on October 19.
Cortina d’Ampezzo (or just Cortina). The resort town in the Dolomites also hosted the Winter Olympics in 1956. 2026 will be the first Olympic Games officially co-hosted by multiple cities. They will also see the debut of ski mountaineering (skimo) as an event, which involves a combination of uphill skiing, uphill climbing on foot, and downhill skiing.
Mercury and Venus. Earth is next with only one, and Mars with two. In the 17th and 18th century, there were up to 30 ‘observations’ of a moon around Venus, which was later called Neith, but later analysis concluded the observations were likely stars that had been in the vicinity of Venus in the sky at the time. No space missions have retrieved any evidence of a moon of Venus.
The Han dynasty. The Han dynasty ruled China from 202 BC - 9 AD, and again from 25 - 220 AD, with a brief interruption by the Xin dynasty (9-23 AD) when the regent Wang Mang seized the throne. There is some evidence of contact and trade between Ancient Rome and Han China.
17. William Holden won the Best Actor Oscar for his role as Sgt J.J. Sefton in Stalag 17. Mickey 17 was adapted from a 2022 novel by Edward Ashton, confusingly called Mickey7.
Vitamin E. There are eight forms of vitamin E: alpha, beta, gamma, and delta tocopherol, and alpha, beta, gamma, and delta tocotrienol.
The Power of Love. Jennifer Rush and Frankie Goes to Hollywood reached number 1 in the UK, and Huey Lewis and the News reached number 1 in the US, with their song from the soundtrack of Back to the Future.
South Africa. Gauteng is the smallest province by land area, but the most populous, containing over 25% of the country’s population, including the city of Johannesburg.
Franz Liszt. The international airport in Budapest was officially renamed after him in 2011 on the 200th anniversary of his birth.
Sherlock Holmes. It is one of only four full-length novels by Arthur Conan Doyle featuring Holmes, alongside 56 short stories. Conan Doyle wrote the novel in less than three weeks, aged 27.
Reykjavík. Completed in 1986, the church is named after 17th century Icelandic poet and cleric Hallgrímur Pétursson. Reykjavík is the northernmost national capital city in the world.
Banchan. Typically, the more formal the meal, the more banchan there will be.
Kākāpō. It is also the world’s heaviest parrot, and suspected to be one of the longest-lived birds, with an estimated lifespan of up to 100 years.
Eyelashes (eyelash curler). The eyelash curler was patented back in 1931, and the design hasn’t changed much since the 1940s.
Uganda. When asked about the hat in 2017, Museveni said, “I was told by my son not to go out without the hat. I spend most of my time outdoors in the tropics. My son told me the hat will protect me from the sun. That’s the story of my hat.”