Ancient martyrs, fighting rules and disappearing cats ? take the Boxing Day Thursday quiz
The Thursday quiz cares not for your so-called Christmas traditions and bank holiday. It is Thursday, and so here we are, regardless of whether it is a national holiday in the UK or not. Although in reality, the quiz master is stuffed full of yesterday?s Christmas dinner and off to see Leyton Orient at home to Crawley Town, before stuffing himself again with festive leftovers, and actually wrote this weeks ago, with every question in it loosely tied to boxes. Have fun, guess well, and a very happy new year to you all!
The Thursday quiz, No 190
1. A cheery question to start with. Boxing Day is St Stephen's Day. In which horrible way was St Stephen (not pictured, that is the quiz master) martyred? Crucified upside down Stoned to death Tied to a post and shot with arrows Made to listen to Coldplay on a loop Reveal 2. Boxing Day was made a bank holiday in England by the Bank Holidays Act of which year? 1771 1831 1871 1931 Reveal 3. Schr?dinger's cat (both pictured and not pictured) is probably the most famous cat ever to get into a box. Schr?dinger proposed the thought experiment during an exchange of letters with who, about what? With Albert Einstein about quantum states With Marie Curie about ways of measuring radiation With Niels Bohr about the properties of the atom With Mr Blobby about Noel's House Party Reveal 4. What is the name for the set of rules formulated for the sport of boxing published in 1867? Horseferry rules Queensberry rules Barberry rules Ronald rules Reveal 5. Which singer, more famous for being part of an exciting modern young beat combo, had a solo album called Tomorrow's Modern Boxes? Damon Albarn of Blur Julian Casablancas of the Strokes Thom Yorke of Radiohead Russell Mael of Sparks Reveal 6. One of painter Ren? Magritte's famous works (not pictured) is called Pandora's Box. Where did Magritte come from? Lelystad in the Netherlands Lille in France Lancy in Switzerland Lessines in Belgium Reveal 7. OMD had a lovely single in 1991 called Pandora's Box, about Louise Brooks. In 1929 she starred in two films directed by GW Pabst ? Pandora's Box and ?? Diary of a Lost Girl Mantrap The Wind The Blue Angel Reveal 8. Who originally did the narrated voiceover on Gogglebox when it hit British screens in 2013? Diane Morgan Catherine Tate Miranda Hart Caroline Aherne Reveal 9. Three of these are legitimate names for Ikea box storage solutions. Spot the odd one out. Sockerbit Uppsnofsad Vildsvin Knagglig Reveal 10. The South African men's national rugby union team is commonly known as the Springboks (Spring-box, geddit?) What is the nickname of the South African women's rugby union team? Proteas Bafana Bafana Pumas Springbok Women Reveal 11. This is Willow, the official dog of the Guardian thursday quiz. She wants to know, if you put down the six-letter word 'boxing' on a standard English Scrabble board, what does the value of the letters on the tiles add up to? 12 14 16 18 Reveal 12. Boxing Day is the anniversary of the premiere of the first collaboration between dramatist WS Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan. Most of the music is now lost, but what was it called? Thespis Theseus Serapis Sepsis Reveal 13. Boxing Day is the birthday of Lars Ulrich, the drummer of Metallica. Happy birthday Lars! Where was he born? Sweden Denmark Norway Finland Reveal 14. In what year did David Blaine do that weird thing of staying for 44 days in a transparent box suspended in the air by the River Thames? 1998 2003 2008 2013 Reveal 15. This is getting to be a stretch now, but if you had a box set of the plays published in Shakespeare's First Folio in 1623, how many plays would you have? There were 26 plays in Shakespeare's First Folio There were 29 plays in Shakespeare's First Folio There were 33 plays in Shakespeare's First Folio There were 36 plays in Shakespeare's First Folio Reveal
Why not celebrate Boxing Day by enjoying Britain?s best new band the New Eves playing Mother at the Green Man festival?
