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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Thomas Eaton

The Weekend quiz

English Bulldog lying on floor, close-up
Know what a bulldog has in common with other animals and birds? Photograph: Terry Husebye/Getty Images

The questions

1 Which company has an Imagineering division?
2 Which British prime ministers were brothers?
3 Which artist’s When Will You Marry? was sold for almost $300m?
4 What annual payment is made up of 1p, 2p, 3p and 4p coins?
5 Who wrote the paper Computing Machinery and Intelligence?
6 Who’s finished runner-up to AP McCoy 15 times in the jockeys’ championship?
7 Which Thames crossing is a bascule bridge?
8 George Westinghouse beat Thomas Edison in what “war”?
What links:
9 Bulldog; pig; monkey; blackbird; raccoon; pony; jay?
10 ’s-Hertogenbosch; Wimbledon; Stuttgart; Halle; Nottingham; Queen’s?
11 Marble Arch, London, and Admiralty Arch, Holyhead?
12 Bereishit; Shemot; Wayiqra; Bemidbar; Devarim?
13 Hobbes; Tony; Richard Parker; Shere Khan?
14 Messenger of the gods; Castor and Pollux; twin brother of Artemis?
15 Rebecca; The Road; Notes From Underground; Fight Club; The Power And The Glory?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The answers

1 Walt Disney.
2 Henry Pelham and the Duke of Newcastle.
3 Paul Gauguin.
4 Maundy money.
5 Alan Turing.
6 Richard Johnson.
7 Tower bridge.
8 War of the Currents: electricity distribution systems.
9 Animals in Beatles’ song titles (other than walrus and octopus).
10 ATP tennis tournaments on grass.
11 A5 road.
12 Torah: first five books of Hebrew Bible.
13 Fictional tigers: Calvin and Hobbes comic strip; Frosties mascot; Life Of Pi novel; The Jungle Book.
14 Nasa manned space programmes: Mercury; Gemini; Apollo.
15 Novels with unnamed narrators/protagonists.

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