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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Thomas Eaton

The Weekend quiz

The Ghan train
Photograph: Getty Images/Lonely Planet Images

The questions

1 Walter Rothschild’s carriage was famously pulled by which animals?
2 Which Ozark family struck oil in 1962?
3 What did a Buckinghamshire bodger make?
4 Who are the only brother and sister to be both ranked world tennis No 1?
5 What place name follows Middle, Nether and Over?
6 Who was pope during the second world war?
7 Who wrote an opera libretto about her appearance on Question Time?
8 The Ghan train runs between which cities?
What links:
9 Arial; Geneva; Helvetica; Tahoma; Univers; Verdana?
10 Joan Baez; Eamon; David Johansen; Ghostface Killah; Christina Aguilera?
11 Weddell; Bellingshausen; Ross; Amundsen?
12 Colheita; Garrafeira; Ruby; Tawny; Crusted; LBV?
13 Waldorf Astor; Bill Sikes; Ronald Reagan; Sid Vicious?
14 Sharman; Foale; Sellers; Patrick; Shuttleworth; Johnson; Garriott; Peake?
15 Grand; Overlook; New Hampshire; California?

Antique opera glasses
Spotted the answer to the opera question? Photograph: Peter Dazeley/Getty Images

The answers

1 Zebras.
2 Clampetts (The Beverly Hillbillies).
3 Chair legs.
4 Marat Safin and Dinara Safina.
5 Wallop (Hampshire).
6 Pius XII.
7 Bonnie Greer (Yes).
8 Darwin and Adelaide.
9 Sans serif typefaces.
10 Singers/rappers from Staten Island, NYC.
11 Antarctic seas.
12 Types of port wine.
13 Partners called Nancy.
14 British or British-born astronauts.
15 Fictional hotels: 1932 film; The Shining; John Irving novel; Eagles song.

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