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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Thomas Eaton

The Weekend quiz

cricket bat and ball
Photograph: C Squared Studios/Getty Images

The questions

1 Which European country has a three-person presidency?
2 What 1980 booklet was a guide to life after nuclear attack?
3 The sign of furriers K West, Heddon Street, appears on which album cover?
4 What meet at Cape Agulhas?
5 The atlatl and woomera were devices to aid what?
6 Torre pendente is the local name for what visitor attraction?
7 Who is cricket’s Lord Bunbury?
8 What Thomas Hardy work was “an epic drama of the war with Napoleon”?
What links:
9 Ada Lovelace; Elisabeth Scott; Anish Kapoor; Shakespeare; Constable?
10 Carter; Wilkinson; Jenkins; O’Gara; Domínguez?
11 Four Darks In Red; Black On Maroon; Orange, Red, Yellow; Orange And Yellow?
12 Deaths of Septimius Severus & Constantius I; declaration of Constantine the Great?
13 Reading; Heathrow T4; Abbey Wood; Shenfield?
14 Siberian city; Japanese province; Balkan state; Mull capital; Venezuelan river?
15 Shirley Temple; Caroline Kennedy; Benjamin Franklin?

painting of Napoleon
Know which Thomas Hardy book name-checks Napoleon? Photograph: Getty Images

The answers

1 Bosnia and Herzegovina.
2 Protect and Survive.
3 Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust.
4 Indian and Atlantic Oceans.
5 Throwing of spears.
6 Leaning Tower of Pisa.
7 David English.
8 The Dynasts.
9 Featured in new UK passport design.
10 Leading point scorers in international rugby union.
11 Works by Mark Rothko.
12 Took place in Roman York (Eboracum).
13 Crossrail project (ends of lines).
14 Wombles: Tomsk; Bungo; Bulgaria; Tobermory; Orinoco.
15 Became US ambassadors.

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