Answers to Ian’s Trivialus 31 August 2025
Answers
Venice Film Festival
Venus
France – Francois Bayrou, the PM, is risking a vote of confidence on his plans for a deep budget cut of €44bn. He is likely to fail which could lead to a collapse in the government.
Cheese sauce
a) Bangladesh – with an estimated population of 175m
Virginia Giuffre – Nobody’s Girl. Apparently she completed her autobiography over a year ago although her relatives say that it doesn’t reveal her full story.
Michael Caine – Newcastle and Tyneside.
Salzburg
Taylor Swift got engaged to Travis Kelce who plays for the Kansas City Chiefs. They are likely to get married sometime in 2026 once the football season is over.
The Women’s Royal Naval Service WRNS, founded in 1917 – the acronym gave rise to the name “Wrens”
Lord of the Flies – William Golding.
South Korea
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Russian
Daniil Medvedev who protested excessively at a decision from the umpire following an incident when a photographer walked on to the court. His opponent was Frenchman Benjamin Bonzi.
Six – one star (the largest) is called the Commonwealth Star and is seven-pointed, representing the six Australian states and the other, its federal territories. The other five smaller stars depict the star formation of the Southern Cross.
59
False – its coastline (54 716km), is the third longest after Norway (83 281km), and Canada (202 080km).
A newspaper’s section on births, marriages, and deaths.
b) – Thomas Cromwell, the most efficient minister in Henry VIII’s court. The king’s reign never recovered after Cromwell’s execution.