The Tes quiz: an end of school year special

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22nd July 2022, 7:00am

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The Tes quiz: an end of school year special

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The summer term - and indeed the school year - may have come to an end, but there’s still time for one last Tes quiz to usher in your well-earned holidays.

As ever, this week’s quiz will test you with a challenging blend of general knowledge brainteasers and pop-culture puzzlers, covering everything from sports and cities to movies and music. 

The Tes quiz will return…But for now, do you know your classic rock from your Commonwealth Games? For one last time this school year, let’s get quizzing - and we’ll see you on the other side. 

The questions

  1. Who had a UK Number One single in August 1972 with School’s Out?
  2. The “snatch” and the “clean and jerk” are classic disciplines in which sport, featuring in the Commonwealth Games?
  3. Staying with the Commonwealth Games, which Australian state has been chosen as the host for the next event in 2026?
  4. Coulrophobia is the fear of what?
  5. Writer-director Jordan Peele’s new film, Nope, is out in August, but for what film did he win the Best Screenplay Oscar in 2018?
  6. The Japanese Shinkansen transport system is colloquially known in English as what?
  7. Which city, which hosts a world-famous annual comics convention every summer, is California’s second-largest (after Los Angeles)?
  8. Which word, meaning “a long, thin line or mark”, is also a collective noun for a group of tigers?
  9. Which actor, born on 22 July 1955, played the villainous Green Goblin in the 2002 film Spider-Man and 2021’s Spider-Man: No Way Home?
  10. Caracas is the capital of which country?

If you’re in the mood for more brainteasers, visit our new quiz hub, or check out some recent ones below…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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