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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Thomas Eaton

What last went down British coalmines in 1986? The Saturday quiz

Pit head winding gear at Hickleton Colliery, South Yorkshire, England, in 1985
Hickleton Colliery, South Yorkshire, in 1985. Photograph: Brian Harris/Alamy

The questions

1 Who won the debut season of Ukraine’s Dancing With the Stars?
2 Which 1963 book is credited with inspiring second-wave feminism?
3 A species of which animal is biologically immortal?
4 Noah replaced Oliver as what last year?
5 What last went down British coalmines in 1986?
6 Which sports would a dual-code international play?
7 Which festival takes place at the Wiesn?
8 Who are the Big Five of Big Tech?
What links:
9
Emperor Charles V; John of Gaunt; Hugo van der Goes; Bradley Wiggins?
10 Barbican; Brunswick Centre; Robin Hood Gardens; Trellick Tower?
11 The Years; By the Sea; Averno; Kaspar; Flights?
12 Architecture; Batman; Creator; Duplo; Ninjago?
13 Ruth (60 in 1927); Maris (61 in 1961); Judge (62 in 2022)?
14 The Gleaner; Granma; the Nation; the Labour Spokesman?
15 Sarkisian; Ciccone; Stoermer Coleman; Knowles?

Tour de France winner, Olympics Gold medalist and World Time Trial Champion, Sir Bradley Wiggins of Great Britain riding for the Sky Team during the individual time trail in the 3rd Stage of the Tour of Qatar, Doha, Qatar, 10 February 2015
Bradley Wiggins in the 2015 Tour of Qatar. Photograph: Kim Ludbrook/EPA

The answers

1 Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
2 The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan.
3 Jellyfish (Turritopsis dohrnii, so-called immortal jellyfish).
4 Most popular name for baby boys (England and Wales).
5 Canaries.
6 Rugby union and league.
7 Munich’s Oktoberfest.
8 Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft.
9 Born in Ghent.
10 Brutalist architecture in London.
11 Works by recent Nobel literature laureates: Annie Ernaux; Abdulrazak Gurnah; Louise Glück; Peter Handke; Olga Tokarczuk.
12 Lego ranges.
13 Baseball’s American League home run record progression.
14 Caribbean newspapers: Jamaica; Cuba; Barbados; Saint Kitts and Nevis.
15 Surnames of mononymous entertainers: Cher; Madonna; Zendaya; Beyoncé.

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