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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Thomas Eaton

The Weekend quiz

Photograph: Pascal Perret/Getty Images

The questions

1 Where has the seventh row finally been completed?
2 Which philosopher’s brother was a one-handed pianist?
3 Where is The Gleaner a national newspaper?
4 Which writer has been played on screen by Olivia Williams and Anne Hathaway?
5 What is the largest member of the crow family?
6 Which forthcoming sporting event is designated 50, rather than L?
7 Where would a Celt have worn a torc?
8 Who is the self-styled “Dean of American Rock Critics”?
What links:
9 Viking; Pathfinder; Beagle 2; Spirit; Opportunity; Phoenix; Curiosity?
10 First; Montparnasse; Majunga; Total; GDF Suez?
11 St Elsewhere; Banacek; Cheers; Ally McBeal?
12 Fanny Brice and Eleanor of Aquitaine (in 1969)?
13 Flesh as food; friend; not wild; eg Leeds Utd?
14 Zealand; Vendsyssel-Thy; Funen; Lolland; Bornholm?
15 Spanish prisoner; pigeon drop; three-card Monte; 419; white-van speakers?

Viking helmet
Still scratching your head over the Viking question? Photograph: Burazin/Getty Images

The answers

1 The periodic table of the elements.
2 Ludwig Wittgenstein (Paul).
3 Jamaica.
4 Jane Austen.
5 Raven.
6 Super Bowl.
7 Round the neck.
8 Robert Christgau.
9 Mars landers/rovers.
10 Paris skyscrapers.
11 TV series set in Boston.
12 Tied best actress Oscar roles (Barbra Streisand and Katharine Hepburn).
13 Anagram: meat; mate; tame; team.
14 Major islands of Denmark.
15 Types of con.

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