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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Thomas Eaton

The Beatles had a long-running legal dispute with what computer company? The Weekend quiz

British rock band The Beatles, circa 1963. Paul McCartney holds a cigarette, others are (left to right) Ringo Starr, George Harrison (1943 - 2001) and John Lennon
The Beatles circa 1963. Photograph: CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images

The questions

1 Who was shot by Bolivian soldier Mario Teran in 1967?
2 What works are compiled on the Roud Index?
3 ZiL lanes run through which capital city?
4 Which Norwegian woman won the New York marathon nine times?
5 Who awards the Dickin Medal, and to whom?
6 What has the Queen done since 6 April 1993?
7 What was the swashbuckling secret of Don Diego de la Vega?
8 The Beatles had a long-running legal dispute with what computer company?
What links:
9 A Hologram For The King; Eight Months On Ghazzah Street; Cities Of Salt?
10 War; Peace; Winged Messenger; Jollity; Old Age; Magician; Mystic?
11 Muñoz; Trapattoni; Cruyff; Ancelotti; Rijkaard; Guardiola; Zidane?
12 Bamboozled; Quizzlestick; Goldrush; Numberwang?
13 Methylene blue (malaria); trypan red (sleeping sickness); Salvarsan (syphilis)?
14 Mother Teresa; Elizabeth Hesselblad; Stanislaus Papczynski?
15 Palace of Westminster and Abbey; the Tower; Maritime Greenwich; Kew Gardens?

A rabbit in a magician's hat
Pulled the answer out of a hat? Photograph: Getty Images/Image Source

The answers

1 Che Guevara.
2 Folk songs.
3 Moscow.
4 Grete Waitz.
5 PDSA to brave animals.
6 Paid income (and capital gains) tax.
7 He was Zorro.
8 Apple.
9 Novels set in Saudi Arabia: Dave Eggers; Hilary Mantel; Abdelrahman Munif.
10 Bynames of Holst’s Planets: Mars; Venus; Mercury; Jupiter; Saturn; Uranus; Neptune.
11 Won European Cup/Champions League as player and manager.
12 Fictional quiz shows: Friends; Adam and Joe; Only Fools And Horses; Mitchell and Webb.
13 Early “magic bullets” to treat diseases.
14 Canonised in 2016.
15 London Unesco World Heritage Sites.

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