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The Guardian - UK
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Thomas Eaton

The Weekend quiz

Donald Sutherland
Donald Sutherland. Photograph: Valery Hache/AFP/Getty Images

The questions

1 Whose ashes recently passed Pluto on board the New Horizons probe?
2 Which manual starts with the words “you know more than you think you do”?
3 Who conceded 114 goals in football matches v Fiji, Tahiti and Vanuatu?
4 Which dynasty includes Lionel, Ethel, John and Drew?
5 EOKA was active on which island?
6 Which landmark’s address is 20 Dean’s Yard, London SW1?
7 Who was described by Randolph Churchill as “an old man in a hurry”?
8 Which major airline has its hub at Atlanta, Georgia?
What links:
9 Barbados Tridents; Jamaica Tallawahs; St Lucia Zouks; Guyana Amazon Warriors?
10 Students; Gables; Garridebs?
11 Andreas Cornelis; Stig Anderson; Kit Lambert; Andrew Loog Oldham; Peter Grant?
12 Kit Harington; Donald Sutherland; Adriana Caselotti?
13 Pen y Fan; Corn Du; Fan Brycheiniog; Cribyn?
14 Elizabeth Siddal; Alexa Wilding; Jane Morris; Fanny Cornforth?
15 New York, often; the year 2173; 19th-century Russia; London x4; Barcelona; Paris?

The answers

1 Clyde Tombaugh (discovered Pluto).
2 Dr Spock’s Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care.
3 Micronesia.
4 Barrymore actors.
5 Cyprus.
6 Westminster Abbey.
7 Gladstone.
8 Delta Air Lines.
9 Caribbean Premier League cricket teams.
10 ‘The Three...’ in Sherlock Holmes stories.
11 Rock managers: Elvis (as Colonel Tom Parker); ABBA; The Who; Rolling Stones; Led Zeppelin.
12 Snow characters: John S, Game Of Thrones; President S, Hunger Games; S White, Disney film.
13 Highest peaks in Brecon Beacons National Park.
14 Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood muses and models.
15 Settings of Woody Allen films: various; Sleeper; Love and Death; Match Point etc; Vicky Cristina B; Midnight in P.

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