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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Thomas Eaton

What links Oscar Wilde and Johnny Depp? The Saturday quiz

Portrait photo circa 1882 of Irish playwright, poet, author and aesthete Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde circa 1882. Photograph: Archive Pics/Alamy

The questions

1 Which Filipino was assassinated at the airport later named after him?
2 Which non-feline has a scientific name meaning “fire-coloured cat”?
3 Sabrage is the technique of doing what with a sword?
4 Which Dickens novel has a female narrator?
5 Which football team has won more European Cups than league titles?
6 In the Bible, who lived to the age of 962?
7 Which dynasty originated in the second marriage of Catherine of Valois?
8 Which national opera company is based in Leeds?
What links:
9
23 in March; 73 in September?
10 Alexander Selkirk; John F Kennedy; Lucy Irvine?
11 Bears, cola bottles, fried eggs, heart throbs and rings?
12 Golden; Beaver; Evergreen; Last Frontier?
13 Oscar Wilde; David Irving; Johnny Depp; Rebekah Vardy?
14 Sharm el-Sheikh; Glasgow; Madrid; Katowice?
15 Bob Hayes (100m and wide receiver); Roger Kingdom (110m hurdles and speed coach)?

A row of six glass Coca-Cola bottles with red lids
Cracked the cola bottles clue? Photograph: Steve Stock/Alamy

The answers

1 Ninoy Aquino.
2 Red panda.
3 Opening a champagne bottle.
4 Bleak House (Esther Summerson).
5 Nottingham Forest.
6 Jared (Genesis).
7 Tudor (she married Owen Tudor).
8 Opera North.
9 New car number plates issued (age identifier).
10 Stranded on islands: inspired Robinson Crusoe; in second world war; author of Castaway.
11 Haribo Starmix contents.
12 Nicknames of US Pacific states: California; Oregon; Washington; Alaska.
13 Sued for libel and lost.
14 COP climate conferences (2018-22).
15 Only two sportsmen to win Olympic gold medal and Super Bowl ring.

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