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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Thomas Eaton

FC Santa Claus is a football team in which country? The Saturday Quiz

A photo of Santa Claus holding a football, cropped to show just his torso and the football
Kicking yourself over the footballing Santa clue? Photograph: D-Keine/Getty Images

The questions

1 Who was posthumously proved right on Christmas Day, 1758?
2 Jennifer Lopez’s green Versace dress inspired what online function?
3 What substance was supposedly produced by mediums at seances?
4 FC Santa Claus is a football team in which country?
5 Which diocese used to stretch from the Humber to the Thames?
6 Mark and Roxanne Hoyle dominated the festive charts under what name?
7 Who is the only Australian to win the Nobel prize in Literature?
8 In 1804, Jacques I was declared emperor of where?
What links:
9 Dormouse; squirrel; capercaillie, puffin; salmon; bees?
10 Chelsea army; Manchester football; Milton Keynes computing; York railway?
11 Robert McNamara; Elsa Dorfman; Steve Bannon; John le Carré
12 Doc; Janet; Kikuchiyo; Chico; Merope; Rachel Stevens?
13 Arrowhead Stadium; Globe Life Field; Ball Arena; T-Mobile Arena?
14 Decapitated, 1964 and 1998; arm sawn off, 1984; blown up, 2003?
15 23 birds; 23 musicians; 19 aristocrats; 8 dairy workers; 5 pieces of jewellery?

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