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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Thomas Eaton

Which couple’s tomb was ‘discovered’ at Glastonbury Abbey? The Saturday quiz

Ruins of Glastonbury Abbey, with one porchway framing two towers in the background
Hopes in ruins with the Glastonbury Abbey clue? Photograph: Derek Ayre/Getty Images/500px

The questions

1 Which couple’s tomb was “discovered” at Glastonbury Abbey in 1191?
2 The M’Naghten rules are concerned with the legal definition of what?
3 Which singer was nicknamed the Empress of the Blues?
4 What was Jesus’s native language?
5 “The Banker – Himself” was a credit on which TV show?
6 What only became a public holiday in Scotland in 1958?
7 Which heron is known for its booming call?
8 Which mid-18th-century conflict has been called the first world war?
What links:
9
Stars; Rip It Up; The Race; American Idiot; All Rise; Galileo; Crush?
10 Boat; bottle indentation; former currency; gamble; kick?
11 Davis; Dellinger; Froines; Hayden; Hoffman; Rubin; Weiner?
12 The Emperor; Flights; Snow White and Russian Red; Solaris?
13 Old Indian coin; heavenly food; Australian lizard; grassland; African clawed frog; excessively cheerful?
14 Charing Cross; Notre Dame; Roman Forum; Zhengyangmen Gate?
15 Abraham Lincoln; Pyotr Stolypin; Todor Panitsa?

The answers

1 King Arthur and Guinevere.
2 Insanity.
3 Bessie Smith.
4 Aramaic (scholarly consensus).
5 Deal or No Deal.
6 Christmas Day.
7 Bittern.
8 Seven Years’ war.
9 Musical artist rainbow colours: Simply Red; Orange Juice; Yello; Green Day; Blue; Indigo Girls; Tessa Violet.
10 Punt definitions.
11 Chicago Seven activists on trial in 1969.
12 Books by Polish authors: Ryszard Kapuściński; Olga Tokarczuk; Dorota Maslowska; Stanislaw Lem.
13 Ending in -anna, getting longer: anna; manna; goanna; savanna; platanna; Pollyanna.
14 Zero point for measuring road distances: London; Paris; (ancient) Rome; Beijing.
15 Assassinated in theatres: US president, Washington, 1865; Russian PM, Kyiv, 1911; Bulgarian revolutionary, Vienna, 1925.

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