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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Thomas Eaton

On a turkey, what is the furcula? The Weekend quiz

Three turkeys isolated on a white background
Photograph: Getty Images

The questions

1 Which anthropologist complained of being mistaken for a jeans maker?
2 Whose limit is the maximum mass of a stable white dwarf star?
3 What word for a coral island comes from the Maldivian language?
4 On what street does Fearless Girl face off Charging Bull?
5 Beryl Burton won 96 national titles in what sport?
6 On a turkey, what is the furcula?
7 Where are the Senyera and Estelada flown?
8 Which Manet series was inspired by Goya’s Third of May, 1808?
What links:
9 Malcolm Little in activism; Norman Rogers in hip-hop; Virginie Gautreau in a portrait?
10 Lee; Brown; Dench; Fiennes?
11 In The Ghetto; Homecoming; My Kind Of Town; The Seer’s Tower?
12 Firefly; koala bear; slow worm; horned toad; starfish?
13 Glass; Dhoo; Neb; Laxey; Sulby; Silverburn?
14 Walt Disney Concert Hall, LA; Guggenheim, Bilbao; Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris?
15 Simon Hoggart; William G Stewart; Mel and Sue; Stephen Fry?

Aerial view, Bandos Island, North Male Atoll, Indian Ocean, Maldives
All at sea on the coral island clue? Photograph: Alamy

The answers

1 Claude Lévi-Strauss.
2 Chandrasekhar.
3 Atoll.
4 Wall Street (sculptures).
5 Cycling.
6 Wishbone.
7 Catalonia (official and separatist flags).
8 The Execution of Emperor Maximilian.
9 X: Malcolm X; Public Enemy’s Terminator X; Singer Sargent’s Madame X.
10 Played M in Bond films.
11 Songs about Chicago: Elvis; Kanye West; Sinatra; Sufjan Stevens.
12 Animal misnomers: beetle, not a fly; marsupial, not a bear; lizard, not a worm; lizard, too; an echinoderm, not a fish.
13 Rivers on the Isle of Man.
14 Designed by Frank Gehry.
15 Succeeded by Sandi Toksvig: the News Quiz; Fifteen To One; Bake Off; QI.

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