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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Thomas Eaton

What links dental calculus with a ballet skirt? The Saturday quiz

Row Of Tutus On Display At Market Stall
Cracked the ballet clue? Photograph: Sharmine Nockolds/Getty Images/EyeEm


The questions

1 What question did Linda Nochlin pose in a 1971 art history essay?
2 Who was the last monarch to rule France?
3 Where did Al Swearengen run the notorious Gem Theater?
4 Who is Britain’s most successful Paralympian?
5 What have nested at Loch Garten since the 1950s?
6 What was a “lucky country run mainly by second-rate people”?
7 Which song was originally about a plane to Houston?
8 In the body, what can be HDL or LDL?
What links:
9
Anima sana in corpore sano; antelope; victory goddess; Adolf Dassler?
10 Manchester barmaid; Yorkshire police officer; American TV chef?
11 Dental calculus; Hawaiian dress; ballet skirt; North African grain?
12 Shahada; salat; zakat; sawm; hajj?
13 Dunfermline; Bangor; Wrexham; Colchester; Milton Keynes; Doncaster?
14 Marie Byrd; Queen Maud; Victoria; Wilkes?
15 Spontaneous combustion; onstage explosion; gardening accident?

Loch Garten - Cairngorm National Park
Know all about Loch Garten nests? Photograph: Ian Appleton/500px/Getty Images/500px Plus

The answers

1 Why have there been no great women artists?
2 Napoleon III.
3 Deadwood.
4 Sarah Storey (17 golds).
5 Ospreys.
6 Australia (according to Donald Horne).
7 Midnight Train to Georgia.
8 Cholesterol.

9 Name origins of trainers brands: Asics; Reebok; Nike; Adidas.
10 Roles of Sarah Lancashire: Coronation Street; Happy Valley; Julia.
11 Repetitive words: tartar; muumuu; tutu; couscous.
12 Five pillars of Islam: declaration of faith; prayer; almsgiving; fasting; pilgrimage.
13 New UK cities in 2022.
14 Lands of Antarctica.
15 Fates of Spinal Tap drummers.

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