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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Thomas Eaton

What links Tiberius and Gracie Fields? The Weekend quiz

St Paul’s Cathedral
St Paul’s Cathedral; what links it with Newgate Prison? Photograph: Alamy

1 Which English county’s natives have national minority status?
2 What form of pollution is measured on the Bortle scale?
3 “We have all the time in the world” was on whose gravestone?
4 Which TV series has India Fisher narrated since 2005?
5 What would a German FKK enthusiast eschew?
6 Which sporting champion was the offspring of Quorum and Mared?
7 Who founded the monastery on Lindisfarne?
8 Prosopagnosia is the inability to do what?
What links:
9 Crest; torse; mantling; helm; crown; escutcheon; supporters; motto?
10 4th, 20th (x 2), 24th and 25th letters of the alphabet, geographically?
11 Iris Tree; Jeanne Hébuterne; Beatrice Hastings; Juan Gris; Picasso?
12 Emperor Tiberius and Gracie Fields?
13 Albacore; Atlantic bluefin; skipjack; yellowfin; bigeye?
14 Gottfried Dienst (Switzerland); Tofiq Bahramov (USSR); Karol Galba (Czechoslovakia)?
15 St Paul’s Cathedral; Newgate Prison; Worcester Cathedral; Godmersham Park?


Pablo Picasso.
Pablo Picasso. Photograph: Ralph Gatti/AFP/Getty Images

The answers

1 Cornwall.
2 Light pollution.
3 Teresa Bond (For Your Eyes Only film).
4 MasterChef.
5 Clothes (naturist movement).
6 Red Rum.
7 St Aidan.
8 Recognise faces.
9 Parts of a heraldic achievement of arms.
10 British river homophones: Dee, Tees, Exe, Wye.
11 Painted by Modigliani.
12 Retired to Capri.
13 Tuna species.
14 Match officials at 1966 World Cup final.
15 Buildings on banknotes: Wren £50; Fry £5; Elgar £20; Austen £10.

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