No. 80 · Tuesday, October 6, 2026
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Play today’s sevenDoha will host the 2030 Asian Games. It is the capital of which country?
- Qatar
- United Arab Emirates
- Bahrain
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✓Qatar, which also hosted the Asian Games back in 2006.
Carrie (1974), whose opening pages were famously rescued from a wastebasket, was the debut novel of which writer?
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✓Stephen King, whose wife Tabitha fished the pages out of the bin.
Which song on the Beatles’ Rubber Soul, now getting a deluxe box set, has lyrics partly sung in French?
- Michelle
- Girl
- Norwegian Wood
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✓“Michelle”, which went on to win the Grammy for Song of the Year.
In The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992), Michael Caine’s Scrooge employs which Muppet as his clerk, Bob Cratchit?
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✓Kermit the Frog, with Miss Piggy as Mrs Cratchit.
“White House” became the official name 125 years ago this month. Who was the first president to live there?
- John Adams
- George Washington
- Thomas Jefferson
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✓John Adams, who moved in in 1800 while the plaster was still wet.
El Niño, Spanish for “the boy”, was named by Peruvian fishermen for the warm water’s arrival around which holiday?
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✓Christmas, so “the boy” is the infant Jesus.
The NYT mocked him in 1920 and apologised in 1969. Who launched the first liquid-fuel rocket, 100 years ago this year?
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✓Robert Goddard, whose 1926 rocket flew for about two and a half seconds.
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