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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Thomas Eaton

What links RMS Tayleur and RMS Titanic? The Saturday quiz

A promotional postcard of the Titanic at sea.
Titanic clue left you all at sea? Photograph: Shawshots/Alamy

The questions

1 What begins: “When in the Course of human events”?
2 Which English county is a member of the Celtic Congress?
3 Which novel’s original title was Margaret Hale?
4 Which New York skyscraper has fender and hubcap decorations?
5 Emma of Normandy was the mother of which two kings?
6 Why is the Etruscan shrew a record-breaker?
7 The head of Medusa is which fashion brand’s logo?
8 Which football club is nicknamed FC Hollywood?
What links:
9 Vasa, 1628; RMS Tayleur, 1854; RMS Titanic, 1912?
10 Malibu; thruster; fish; gun; tow-in?
11 Katniss Everdeen; Hawkeye; Legolas; Daryl Dixon?
12 Heel Holland Bakt; Le Meilleur Pâtissier; Das Grosse Backen?
13 Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu; Jeannine Deckers; Wendy Beckett?
14 Wales; Belgium; double-decker buses; football pitches?
15 Bermuda petrel; Laotian rock rat; terror skink; coelacanth?

Tinted lithograph by Villain of Emma of Normandy
Know all about Emma of Normandy? Photograph: Florilegius/Alamy

The answers

1 US Declaration of Independence.
2 Cornwall.
3 North and South (Elizabeth Gaskell).
4 Chrysler building.
5 Harthacnut and Edward the Confessor.
6 Smallest mammal (by mass).
7 Versace.
8 Bayern Munich.
9 Ships that sank on their maiden voyage.
10 Types of surfboard.
11 Fictional archers: The Hunger Games; Marvel comics; The Lord of the Rings; The Walking Dead.
12 International versions of the Great British Bake Off: Dutch; French; German.
13 Famous nuns: Mother Teresa (original name); Singing Nun; TV art critic.
14 Common media comparisons of size.
15 Animals once thought to have been extinct.

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