What links Kate Bush and the Beatles? The Saturday quiz

  • 12/16/2023
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The questions 1 Won by Bradford that year, what did local jeweller Fattorini make in 1911? 2 What was once defined as the length of three grains of barley? 3 Who was the subject of the 1978 documentary To Mrs Brown, a Daughter? 4 What is the world’s largest unfinished Catholic church? 5 How did Jacob Chansley achieve notoriety on 6 January 2021? 6 The Bitter Lakes are part of which waterway? 7 Which mammals have the thickest fur? 8 Julia Margaret Cameron was a pioneer of which art form? What links: 9 Aureus; ducat; florin; guinea; noble; unicorn? 10 DH Lawrence; USS George HW Bush; Stalker; Where Eagles Dare? 11 Shadow; persona; anima/animus; self? 12 Albert Dieudonné; Marlon Brando; Rod Steiger; Joaquin Phoenix? 13 1, 2, 6 and 10; 0, 4, 5 and 9; 3, 7, 8, 40, 50 and 60? 14 Greyfriars Bobby; Towser the cat; Winkie the pigeon; Kelpies? 15 The Beatles (54 years); Kate Bush (44 years); Tom Jones (42 years)? The answers 1 FA Cup. 2 Inch. 3 Louise Brown (first test tube baby). 4 Sagrada Família. 5 QAnon Shaman at the Capitol riot. 6 Suez Canal. 7 Sea otters. 8 Photography (portraits). 9 Gold coins: ancient Rome; Venice; Florence; Britain; England; Scotland. 10 Subjects of books by Geoff Dyer: Out of Sheer Rage; Another Great Day at Sea; Zona; “Broadsword Calling Danny Boy”. 11 Jungian archetypes. 12 Played Napoleon on film: Napoléon; Désirée; Waterloo; 2023’s Napoleon. 13 Numbers when written out: three letters; four letters; five letters. 14 Animal statues and sculpture in Scotland: Edinburgh; Glenturret distillery; Dundee; horse heads, Falkirk. 15 Longest gaps between No 1 UK singles.

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