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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Thomas Eaton

What links a 1982 Prince song and a 1949 Orwell novel? The Saturday Quiz

Prince performing onstage during the 1984 Purple Rain tour in Detroit, singing with his hands in the air
Hoping for a purple patch with the Prince clue? Photograph: Icon and Image/Getty Images

The questions

1 Which world-famous ancient site was the capital of the Nabataean people?
2 What is a shark’s skeleton made of?
3 On 15 February 1971, what went from 240 to 100?
4 Which England footballer presented Deal or No Deal Nigeria?
5 Ju Ae is the daughter and possible heir of which leader?
6 United Downs in Cornwall is the UK’s first of what type of power plant?
7 Which US magazine was founded in 1925 by Harold Ross and Jane Grant?
8 Who was the first British entrant to win Eurovision?
What links:
9
Dead Man Walking; Monster’s Ball; The Green Mile; True Crime?
10 Early English; decorated; perpendicular?
11 Flute-playing rapper; tears in Turin; Paranoid singer?
12 Gretna, Scotland and Marshall Meadows Bay, Northumberland (c2,700 miles)?
13 Solon; Hammurabi; Moses; Justinian; Napoleon?
14 Christie’s rostrum; Comic Relief nose; Coronation emblem; Linn turntable?
15 1949 Orwell novel (35); 1982 Prince song (17); 2014 Taylor Swift album (25)?

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