What links the Coldstream Guards band and the Style Council? The Saturday quiz

  • 8/10/2024
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The questions 1 Lana Peters, who died in Wisconsin in 2011, was whose daughter? 2 What is the world’s northernmost national capital city? 3 In France, what means of transport is a Montgolfière? 4 Which king of England was born in Caernarfon? 5 What unique sporting double did Golden Miller achieve in 1934? 6 Which medical remedy was derived from cinchona bark? 7 What US exchange was the world’s first electronic stock market? 8 What was Lina, owned by Albert Einstein? What links: 9 Guérin; Rimet; Rous; Havelange; Blatter? 10 Coldstream Guards band; Status Quo; the Style Council; the Boomtown Rats? 11 Angoroj (1964); Incubus (1966); Gerda Malaperis! (2006); La Patro (2007)? 12 Kent; New Jersey, US; Victoria, Australia? 13 Baruch; Esdras; Judith; Susanna; Tobit? 14 A in 1903; B and C in 1904; F in 1905; T in 1908? 15 South-west Norfolk; Richmond; Holborn and St Pancras? The answers 1 Joseph Stalin (and Nadezhda Alliluyeva). 2 Reykjavik (Iceland). 3 Hot air balloon. 4 Edward II. 5 Cheltenham Gold Cup and Grand National. 6 Quinine. 7 Nasdaq. 8 Violin. 9 Presidents of Fifa. 10 First acts of Live Aid in 1985. 11 Feature films in Esperanto. 12 Garden nicknames: garden of England; garden state. 13 Books of the Apocrypha (King James’s Bible). 14 Launch of Ford car models. 15 Constituencies of recent PMs: Truss; Sunak; Starmer.

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