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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Thomas Eaton

In what film did Jennifer Lawrence play a mop’s inventor? The Saturday quiz

Head and shoulders shot of actor Jennifer Lawrence, wearing a v-neck black top, in front of a gold background, at the Golden Globe awards in California, 2024
Putting in the elbow grease with the Jennifer Lawrence clue? Photograph: Michael Tran/AFP/Getty Images

The questions

1 Which national flag has been modified 26 times?
2 What is the first letter that doesn’t name a vitamin?
3 Which late pianist was the first to record all of Beethoven’s piano works?
4 In legend, what joined the yoke to the pole of a Phrygian wagon?
5 In what film did Jennifer Lawrence play the inventor of a mop?
6 What was unusual about Cpl Wojtek, who served in the war with the 2nd Polish Corps?
7 Which writer last visited Dublin in 1912?
8 Which Essex market town is named after a spice?
What links:
9
Mark Berry; Stacia Blake; Jed Hoile; Barry Mooncult?
10 William Huskisson; James A Garfield; Leo Tolstoy?
11 Formerly 1/16 of a rupee; Icelandic narratives; ranging technology; relating to a city; made a god?
12 Cleeks; Crushers; HyFlyers; Iron Heads; Majesticks; Torque?
13 Gracious and glorious (1); long, our and the (2); save and God (3); King (4)?
14 Capitol Complex, Chandigarh; Notre-Dame du Haut; Unité d’habitation; Villa Savoye?
15 Catherine the Great; Éamon de Valera; Adolf Hitler; Julia Gillard; Boris Johnson?

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