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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Thomas Eaton

What links Charlie Chaplin, Eva Perón, Joseph Haydn and Gram Parsons? The Weekend quiz

Charlie Chaplin as the Tramp in 1915.
Charlie Chaplin as the Tramp in 1915. Photograph: Everett/Rex Shutterstock

The questions

1 Where did the Dear Leader succeed the Great Leader?
2 Project Blue Book was the US Air Force investigation into what?
3 What company’s name comes from “no brand” in Japanese?
4 Hungarian fencer Pál Szekeres was the first person to complete which double?
5 What is the UK’s largest bird of prey?
6 Nuneaton hospital is named after which writer?
7 What is fired by a Very pistol?
8 Award-winning singer Joseph Adenuga has what stage name?
What links:
9 Sidney Olcott; Fred Niblo; William Wyler; Timur Bekmambetov?
10 Northern; Southern; Reticulated; Masai?
11 Charlie Chaplin; Eva Perón; Joseph Haydn; Gram Parsons?
12 Three, four and five; five, 12 and 13; eight, 15 and 17; seven, 24 and 25?
13 Bernard Herrmann; Joni Mitchell; Vanessa Paradis?
14 Malaga; Barcelona; Antibes; Paris; Vallauris; Münster?
15 Maze prison buildings; addressing the pope; wrestler Paul Levesque; Laurent Binet novel?

View of Barcelona, Spain, from the city's Park Guell
Bit of an expert on Barcelona? Photograph: Gatsi/Getty Images/iStockphoto

The answers

1 North Korea (Kim Jong-il and Kim Il-sung).
2 UFOs.
3 Muji.
4 Winning Olympic and Paralympic medals.
5 White-tailed eagle.
6 George Eliot.
7 Signal flare.
8 Skepta.
9 Directed versions of Ben-Hur.
10 Giraffe species.
11 Bodies (or parts) moved/stolen.
12 Pythagorean triples.
13 Taxi music: Taxi Driver score; Big Yellow Taxi; Joe Le Taxi.
14 Location of Picasso museums.
15 H progression: H(-Blocks); HH (His Holiness); Triple H; HHhH.

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