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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Thomas Eaton

What is the bestselling jazz album ever? The Weekend quiz

Gold record spinning on turntable
Going for gold? Photograph: Getty Images

The questions

1 Which two kings (1377-1485) didn’t get their own Shakespeare play?
2 Which rodent was once thought to bite off its own testicles?
3 The 1950 Law of Return concerns citizenship of what country?
4 What is the bestselling jazz album ever?
5 Which cartoon characters wear Phrygian caps?
6 Which planet is covered with clouds of sulphuric acid?
7 Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, features in what documentary series?
8 What is overseen by the CWGC?
What links:
9 The Ruin; The Wanderer; The Seafarer; The Whale; Dream Of The Rood?
10 Walney Extension; London Array; Race Bank; Gwynt y Môr?
11 Margaret Court; Evonne Goolagong-Cawley; Kim Clijsters?
12 Wendigo; chupacabra; bunyip; yeran; oni?
13 Biddulph Moor, Staffordshire and the Humber Estuary?
14 Freaky Friday; Big; All Of Me; Vice Versa; 18 Again?
15 Roman messenger god; Castor and Pollux; Greek deity of music and poetry?

Humpback whale tail up out of the sea
Whale expert? Photograph: Getty Images

The answers

1 Edward IV and Edward V.
2 Beaver.
3 Israel.
4 Kind Of Blue by Miles Davis.
5 The Smurfs.
6 Venus.
7 Making A Murderer.
8 Military cemeteries (Commonwealth War Graves Commission).
9 Anglo-Saxon poems.
10 Major UK offshore wind farms.
11 Mothers winning tennis grand slams.
12 Folklore monsters: North America; Latin America; Australia; China; Japan.
13 River Trent.
14 Body swap film comedies.
15 Nasa manned missions: Mercury; Gemini; Apollo.

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