The answers to (and winner of) our May 2026 quiz

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The answers to (and winner of) our May 2026 quiz
We had 29 official entries to our May Spring Quiz - you can see the winner (and correct answers) below.

Posted by Andy Brown on 03 July 2026

We had 29 official entries to our May Quiz, with Paul Silvester of North-East Lincolnshire Council being chosen as the winner by our weighted Excel sorting hat. Paul wins this month's £50 prize. Commiserations go to David G who managed to get all 20 questions right, and thus had the highest chance of winning - but didn't.

Here are the answers, showing what percentage of people got each question right:

No.	Answer	% correct
1	Apparently this is called a trap street.	36%
2	Africa has 54 countries, narrowly beating Asia with 48 or 49 and Europe with 44.	56%
3	The .ai domain suffix belongs to Anguilla, a small British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean.	44%
4	Malin is named after the Malin Sea, and is area number 2 in the map (just North of Ireland).	40%
5	An impressive 42% of people guessed that until recently this was the world's only third-order enclave (a part of India wholly contained in a part of Bangladesh, itself wholly contained in a part of India).	42%
6	Batman can be found in Turkey!	51%
7	It's Chandler, Rachel and Ross who are trying to move the sofa while Ross shouts "Pivot". I thought everyone would know this!	69%
8	If you know that Kim is (or was) married to Kanye West, it's obvious the compass point is North West.	82%
9	Jose Mourinho has never managed Arsenal.	677%
10	It's long been known who Banksy is, but he has now been officially outed as Robin Gunningham.	53%
11	Dissected maps are now called jigsaws, as virtually everyone guessed correctly.	98%
12	In Noises Off the stage rotates during the performance so that the audience see the back of the stage as well as the front.	31%
13	Winnie the Pooh corresponds to the number 42 in bingo calling.	36%
14	It was Ringo who spent time in a sanatorium in his teens. Less than a quarter of people got this right, so this is the only question where a random number generator would have done better.	24%
15	There are so many great facts about Arthur Conan Doyle. He did campaign for a solicitor wrongly convicted of animal abuse, did warn about Robert Koch's TB remedy and did defend the Cottingley Fairies photograph, but he didn't help popularise skiing in Scotland.	29%
16	An unidentified person (or persons) for several decades paid an annual tribute to the American author Edgar Allan Poe. Each year he would visit Poe's grave on his birthday, pour himself a drink and raise a toast to Poe's memory, then vanish into the night leaving three roses and an unfinished bottle of liquor. The person was never identified, but became known as the PoeToaster. A bizarre but true story!	31%
17	You know your chocolates: most people knew that Quality Street have the most different ones in the box (12; Heroes has 9 or 10, Celebrations 8 and Roses 9 or 10).	60%
18	Salvador Dali didn't design the Pringles logo, although it's commonly said he did; instead he designed the Chupa Chups lolly logo.	40%
19	The suicide king who doesn't have a moustache is ... the King of Hearts.	44%
20	Venus takes longer to spin around on itself than it does to orbit the Sun (243 versus 225 Earth days).	33%