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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Thomas Eaton

The restored Amber Room is in which palace? The Weekend quiz

Interior of the Amber Room at the Catherine Palace in Tsarskoye Selo, Russia
The Amber Room. Photograph: Getty Images

The questions

1 Who were the intended victims of the St Brice’s Day massacre?
2 Which celebrated address is at NW1 6XE?
3 What is notable about “Gimme a whiskey, ginger ale on the side”?
4 The restored Amber Room is in which palace?
5 Which spread was first sold as loaves of “Pasta Gianduja” in 1946?
6 The Morrison Formation in the western US is a famous source of what?
7 Why would a twitcher welcome an RBA message?
8 Which two particles make up the nucleus of an atom?
What links:
9 Three-toed sloth; yes in the Commons; first person pronoun; optical organ?
10 Josef “Sepp” Herberger; Helmut Schön; Franz Beckenbauer; Joachim Löw?
11 Lennie James; Keeley Hawes; Daniel Mays; Thandie Newton?
12 Carpal; metacarpal; phalanges?
13 Jandowae, Queensland and west of Penong, South Australia (5,531km)?
14 Codrington; Signet; Maughan; Parker; John Rylands?
15 Letsie III; Mswati III; Mohammed VI?

Drawing of an atom
What’s the matter? Not got the answer? Photograph: Shutterstock

The answers

1 Danes in England (1002).
2 221b Baker St.
3 Greta Garbo’s first screen words (in Anna Christie).
4 Catherine Palace, outside St Petersburg.
5 Nutella.
6 Dinosaur fossils.
7 It’s a rare bird alert.
8 Protons and neutrons.
9 Homophones: ai; aye; I; eye.
10 World Cup-winning German managers.
11 Played investigated officers in Line of Duty.
12 Types of bone in the hand.
13 Dingo/dog fence.
14 Libraries: Oxford; Edinburgh; London; Cambridge; Manchester.
15 African kings: Lesotho; Swaziland; Morocco.

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