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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Thomas Eaton

What links Althea & Donna, Sean Paul and Ken Boothe? The Saturday quiz

Donna and Althea posing for a portrait, Donna wearing orange tinted sunglasses and Althea pointing at the camera
Addled by the Althea & Donna clue? Photograph: Fin Costello/Redferns

The questions

1 What was discovered on a dish containing Staphylococcus aureus?
2 At which Jewish festival is it traditional to serve triangular food?
3 Whose daughter became Queen of Mauretania in 25BC?
4 Kling Klang in Düsseldorf was which band’s studio?
5 Which Briton was the first person to deadlift 500kg?
6 What are studied by a dendrochronologist?
7 Which warrior class was abolished in the 1870s?
8 On the Calculation of Volume is a seven-novel series by which Dane?
What links:
9
Gladstone only; eg Salisbury, Baldwin; eg Churchill, Wilson; eg Thatcher, Truss?
10 Alexander III; Austerlitz; Alma; Bir-Hakeim; Jena; Léopold Sédar Senghor?
11 Bambino; Donskoy; Elf; Peterbald; Sphynx?
12 Althea & Donna; Ken Boothe; Desmond Dekker; Boris Gardiner; Sean Paul?
13 Pacific Warriors; Invictus; Murderball; The Brighton Miracle; This Sporting Life?
14 Manchester and Sheffield, via Ladybower reservoir?
15 Earl of Essex; 16th US president; Australian bushranger; wartime German industrialist?

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