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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Thomas Eaton

The Weekend quiz

three footballs in a row
Photograph: Kitch Bain/Getty Images

The questions

1 Exceeding the Chandrasekhar limit results in what?
2 Catherine Keener and Sandra Bullock have both played which writer?
3 Which predator is Carcharodon carcharias?
4 Which world-famous building was designed by Danish architect Jørn Utzon?
5 Which US agency’s motto is “tough work, vital mission”?
6 What is the smallest perfect number?
7 Which is the only football team to have lost to England on penalties?
8 What are separated by the Straits of Moyle?
What links:
9 White; Bloody; Beauchamp; Bowyer; Constable; Salt?
10 Samoa (R-L, 2009); Ghana (L-R, 1974); Nigeria (L-R, 1972); Sweden (L-R, 1967)?
11 Potassium, sodium and calcium; safety lamp?
12 Sphere with Inner Form; Figure for Landscape; Winged Figure; Archaean?
13 Narodnaya; Karpinsky; Manaraga; Yamantau; Telpos-Iz?
14 Drag; flam; roll; paradiddle; diddle?
15 Guy Fawkes; Bobby Sands; Carl Jung; Steve Jobs?

The answers

1 Collapse into neutron star/black hole (theoretically).
2 Harper Lee (Capote and Infamous).
3 Great white shark.
4 Sydney Opera House.
5 Drug Enforcement Administration.
6 Six.
7 Spain (Euro 96).
8 Northern Ireland and Scotland.
9 Tower of London towers.
10 Changed direction of traffic.
11 Humphry Davy: first isolated; invented for miners.
12 Barbara Hepworth works.
13 Highest peaks in the Urals.
14 Drumming rudiments.
15 Played on screen by Michael Fassbender.

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Worked out Sweden’s link to Samoa, Ghana and Nigeria yet? Photograph: Getty Images
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