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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Thomas Eaton

What links Doctor Who, Fleabag and The Prisoner? The Weekend quiz

Still from Doctor Who with Tom Baker and some Daleks
Exterminate! Daleks with Tom Baker as the Doctor. Photograph: Everett Collection Inc/Alamy

The questions

1 A suburb of Athens is named after which English poet?
2 Why was Anna Boch’s purchase of The Red Vineyard unique?
3 How many people survived the biblical flood?
4 Where did mudlarks ply their trade?
5 What musical genre was pioneered by drummer Tony Allen?
6 The Exclusion Crisis was an attempt to exclude who?
7 Which documentary is about the two reclusive Edith Beales?
8 On an aircraft, what is nicknamed George?

What links:
9
14 sculptors; 12 architects; 8 printmakers; the rest all painters?
10 Fleabag; The Prisoner; Doctor Who?
11 Hawaiian; Strombolian; Vulcanian; Peléan; Plinian?
12 Common; sand; slow worm?
13 Ireland (7); Russia (6); France (5); USA (4)?
14 Jemini and James Newman?
15 Half note; female sheep; midday; Inuit canoe?

A ewe and her lamb enjoying good weather out in the field on a Cumbrian farm in England, UK.
Sheep clue cracked? Photograph: Fiona McAllister Photography/Getty Images

The answers

1 Byron (Vyronas).
2 Only known sale of a Van Gogh painting in his lifetime.
3 Eight.
4 By the River Thames.
5 Afrobeat.
6 James, Duke of York (future James II) from the throne.
7 Grey Gardens.
8 Autopilot.
9 Designated composition of the Royal Academy.
10 TV series with unnamed title characters.
11 Types of volcanic eruption.
12 Lizards native to the UK.
13 Length of presidential terms.
14 UK Eurovision acts scoring no points.
15 Palindromes: minim; ewe; noon; kayak.

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