2+ week, 6+ day ago  (72+ words) In the fourth of five quizzes, curators at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge set 10 fiendish questions to test your knowledge of their collections Continue reading... Which 16th-century artist painted on an upside down shopping list? Find out in the Art…...

3+ week, 14+ hour ago  (800+ words) The solutions to today’s puzzles – and the winner of the Anguish Languish contest Earlier today I set these three puzzles about deception. Here they are again with solutions. A school cohort has two classes. At the end of the year…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (537+ words) When numbers and sounds are not what they seem Today’s puzzles – and prize draw! – are about different types of deception. A school cohort has two classes. At the end of the year 1, all pupils are graded. When all the pupils…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (245+ words) From Brinsworth House and Denville Hall to Goliath, Timperley Early and Valentine, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz1 Which African capital city and its river are anagrams of each other?2 In the UK, which bird of prey has gone from…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (604+ words) The Guardian The Alien Autopsy Scandal review – an exquisite, playful look at how a faked video swept the world The story behind the grainy footage of a dummy filled with butcher’s off-cuts is an extraordinarily eccentric and knotty joy – with…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (503+ words) The most ambitious exhibition in the Geelong Gallery’s history honours the movement’s early champion Paul Durand-Ruel and features works by Monet, Renoir and Pissarro It would have been “no surprise” to Durand-Ruel that these paintings have travelled to regional Australia,…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (186+ words) Test yourself on topical news trivia, pop culture and general knowledge every Thursday. How will you fare? The men’s Fifa World Cup starts today, and the challenge before the quiz master is to stay up all night every night watching…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (805+ words) A fake alien made by a Doctor Who sculptor, animal organs sourced from a butcher, an actual magician behind the camera … this outrageous story makes for a great watchIf you had to be interviewed on film, how would you hope…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (632+ words) Exhibition explores how artists mainly known for their paintings helped revive a skill that had fallen out of fashion They may be best known for their vibrant oil paintings but an exhibition opening in the English West Country is focusing…...

2+ mon, 2+ day ago  (256+ words) The answers to today’s pronunciation puzzles Earlier today I set you these two word puzzles. Here they are again with solutions. 1: Pronounced the same, spelt differently. A homonym is a word that has the same pronunciation as, or is spelt…...