Beyond the answers - interesting background to this quiz

A striker shaped by two coastlines

Erling Haaland was born in Leeds, England, while his father Alf-Inge Haaland was playing in the Premier League, but he grew up in Norway and came through the youth ranks at Bryne before breaking through at Molde. His goalscoring record in the Champions League and the Premier League has made him one of the most feared forwards of his generation. Norway, incidentally, has not qualified for a World Cup since 1998, which means Haaland's international career has so far been played out largely in European qualifiers and the Nations League.

Three capitals that are easy to mix up

Windhoek, Budapest and Bucharest sit in different countries but trip up plenty of people. Budapest is actually a merger: in 1873 the cities of Buda, Obuda and Pest on opposite banks of the Danube were united into a single capital. Bucharest, despite the similar sound, is the capital of Romania, while Vienna belongs to Austria. Windhoek, Namibia's capital, sits on a high plateau and has a distinctly German-influenced history, a legacy of the period when the area was a German colony.

The lion who rules Madagascar

Alex, the main character of DreamWorks' Madagascar, is a lion who performs at New York's Central Park Zoo before being shipped off and ending up on the island. He is voiced by Ben Stiller, with David Schwimmer as the giraffe Melman, Chris Rock as the zebra Marty and Jada Pinkett Smith as the hippo Gloria. The film's popularity turned "I like to move it" into a playground staple.

A planet with a very different sky

Mars is often called the Red Planet because iron minerals in its soil oxidise, giving the surface a rusty colour. Its atmosphere is thin and dusty, and the sky there can take on a butterscotch or pinkish hue depending on dust and lighting conditions. Sunsets on Mars appear blue to a hypothetical observer, roughly the reverse of what we see on Earth.

Why Aries opens the zodiac year

Aries covers roughly March 21 to April 19 and is the first sign of the zodiac, linked to the ram. The dates shift slightly from year to year because the sun's passage through the constellations does not align perfectly with calendar months. Libra, by contrast, sits opposite Aries on the zodiac wheel.