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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Thomas Eaton

Which future Nobel literature laureates collided on bicycles in 1895? The Weekend quiz

Two bikes, red and blue, leaning on the fence at the river bank. Camden town, London, UK.
Fancy bumping into you here… Photograph: Getty Images

The questions

1 Which future Nobel literature laureates collided on bicycles in 1895?
2 What religious movement is ISKCON?
3 Jane Cain, in 1936, was the first voice of what?
4 What marine predator-themed song has over 2bn views on YouTube?
5 What profession connects David Budd and Frank Farmer?
6 The moment magnitude scale is used to measure what?
7 In what sport was “deflategate” a controversy?
8 Which car firm was founded by an Italian in a German town, now in France?
What links:
9 Kenneth Branagh; David Mitchell; Dean Lennox Kelly; Joseph Fiennes?
10 Singer, married Biggie; wrote The Prisoner Of Zenda; Cherry in Chuzzlewit?
11 George III; St James; Assumption; good air; I see a hill (perhaps)?
12 Dubhe; Merak; Phad; Megrez; Alioth; Mizar; Alkaid?
13 Martha Argerich; Mitsuko Uchida; Angela Hewitt; Olga Kern?
14 Caldarium; tepidarium; frigidarium; sudatorium; laconium?
15 Bognor Regis; Minehead; Skegness?

Actor/entertainer David Mitchell on the Lorraine TV show, September 2018
Know what links David Mitchell with Kenneth Branagh? Photograph: Rex/Shutterstock

The answers

1 George Bernard Shaw and Bertrand Russell.
2 International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Hare Krishna).
3 Speaking clock.
4 Baby Shark.
5 Bodyguard (TV series and Whitney Houston film).
6 Earthquakes.
7 American football.
8 Bugatti.
9 Played Shakespeare on screen: All is True; Upstart Crow; Dr Who; Shakespeare in Love.
10 Theological virtues: Faith (Evans); (Anthony) Hope; Charity (Pecksniff).
11 Name origins of South American capitals: Georgetown; Santiago; Asunción; Buenos Aires; Montevideo.
12 Stars in the Plough.
13 Contemporary female pianists.
14 Rooms in Roman baths.
15 Butlin’s resort locations.

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