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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Thomas Eaton

The Weekend quiz

statue of St Peter in Rome
Photograph: Getty Images

The questions

1 Which institution was abolished as “useless and dangerous” in 1649?
2 Which country’s leader was the first African in the Académie française?
3 Florence Foster Jenkins was a famously bad what?
4 What form of communication is Auslan?
5 Who wrote The Leatherstocking Tales?
6 What is the cathedral church of Rome?
7 Which glandular organ secretes insulin?
8 The concoction Pot Belge was once used in what sport?
What links:
9 Early English; Decorated; Perpendicular?
10 Sarah; Postcard; Factory; Creation; 4AD; Mute?
11 Horseshoe; American; Bridal Veil?
12 Flatfish; young cattle; wrestling villain; early 1980s Labour leader?
13 Shoyu; miso; shio; tonkotsu?
14 George Sanders; Roger Moore; Ian Ogilvy; Simon Dutton; Val Kilmer?
15 Tracey Emin’s tent; Graham Sutherland’s Churchill portrait; Otto Freundlich’s Large Head sculpture?

blank postcard
Worked out yet what links Postcard with Sarah, Mute et al? Photograph: Getty Images

The answers

1 House of Lords.
2 Senegal (Léopold Senghor).
3 Opera singer.
4 Australian sign language.
5 James Fenimore Cooper.
6 St John Lateran.
7 Pancreas.
8 Cycling (drug mixture).
9 Styles of English Gothic architecture.
10 Indie record labels.
11 Falls at Niagara Falls.
12 Parts of the leg: sole; calf; heel; (Michael) Foot.
13 Types of Japanese ramen broth.
14 Played Simon Templar/The Saint on TV and film.
15 Destroyed artworks.

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