Answers to Ian’s Trivialus 13 July 2025
Answers
Tehran
Cube
Emmanuel Macron, and his wife Brigitte, stayed at Windsor Castle over their three-day tour.
Yorkshire
a) – Damascus in chapter 14 verse 15.
b) – it is the ninth Superman film of the modern era. How did we ever survive before 1978?
Airborne dust concentration.
b) – Cheerful and confident.
Red Bull GmbH – responsible for the F1 team which has seen a run of disappointing results over the last five months. Over recent years, Red Bull overlooked a number of Horner’s negative merits (sexual harassment charges, alienation of key staff members, PR scandals etc.), but the hard reality of losses is not something it can tolerate.
The Tempest (1611) – he subsequently wrote two more plays, but these were co-authored with John Fletcher.
Rave On
Intentionally murdering her in-laws by preparing a Beef Wellington that was laced with poisonous wild mushrooms. She killed the parents of her estranged husband as well as his aunt and almost killed his uncle. On the latter crime she received a guilty verdict of attempted murder. It may be many weeks before she is sentenced.
Taken
Quinine
Texas – Nine days ago the Guadalupe River rapidly burst its banks resulting in many people at a summer camp being swept away. The lack of early-warning sirens has been identified as a problem and one that will be addressed in the future. There were more than 100 casualties many of which were children.
a) 4.6% - the rest is dark energy (71.4%) and dark matter (24.0%).
The Sargasso Sea
True – it is in the Artic Archipelago straddling the border between Nunavut and the Northwest Territories. It is the eight largest island in the world.
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, Act 3 Scene 1, Mark Antony says “Cry Havoc, and let slip the dogs of war”.
Stockton and Darlington – the line was first opened on 27 September 1825.