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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Thomas Eaton

The Weekend quiz

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Photograph: Alamy

The questions

1 Which hotel was actually Wooburn Grange Country Club?
2 Where have “favourite” stars turned into “like” hearts?
3 Who partnered Jean Butler on 30 April 1994 at the Point theatre, Dublin?
4 What do colombophiles fancy?
5 Whose Fourteen Points were a blueprint for world peace?
6 In what city is the curry mile?
7 Which author was born Alisa Rosenbaum in St Petersburg?
8 Which venue is home to the Knicks, Rangers and Liberty?
What links:
9 Tannochbrae; Balamory; Brigadoon; Thrums; Skyfall?
10 Baron Haussmann; Walter Burley Griffin; Lúcio Costa; Robert Moses; Le Corbusier?
11 Gustave Flaubert novel; Jack Whitehall sitcom; Lynn Barber memoir?
12 Guinness; eggs; Opal Fruits; cream cakes?
13 TIROS; Nimbus; ESSA; GOES; POES?
14 Bullhead; mackerel; carpet; ground?
15 Adele; Jessie J; Leona Lewis; Katie Melua, Kate Nash; Amy Winehouse?

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Cracked the answer? Photograph: Jasmin Kämmerer/EyeEm

The answers

1 Fawlty Towers (exterior shots).
2 Twitter.
3 Michael Flatley (Riverdance at Eurovision).
4 Pigeons.
5 Woodrow Wilson.
6 Manchester (Rusholme).
7 Ayn Rand.
8 Madison Square Garden.
9 Fictional places in Scotland: Dr Finlay books; TV series; musical; JM Barrie books; Bond film.
10 Urban planners: Paris; Canberra; Brasília; New York; Chandigarh.
11 Education: Sentimental E; Bad E; An E.
12 Products associated with famous copywriters: Dorothy L Sayers; Fay Weldon; Murray Walker; Salman Rushdie.
13 Meteorological satellite programmes.
14 Orders of sharks.
15 Alumni of Brit School, Croydon.

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