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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Thomas Eaton

What links Berry Gordy and Herb Alpert? The Saturday quiz

Motown founder Berry Gordy speaking on the phone, 1970
Berry Gordy in 1970. Photograph: Afro Newspaper/Gado/Getty Images

The questions

1 What did Charles Sheffield sell to George III for £21,000?
2 Mexico’s Los Topos are specialists in what type of rescue?
3 Which stories were told to King Shahryar?
4 In the US, what passed $32tn in June?
5 Which element is named after the architect of the periodic table?
6 What has been removed from the packaging of Toblerone?
7 Which urban theorist wrote The Death and Life of Great American Cities?
8 Vehicles over what age are exempt from an MOT?
What links:
9
An Age of Kings; The Hollow Crown; The Wars of the Roses; Chimes at Midnight?
10 Ahmet Ertegun; Herb Alpert; Berry Gordy; David Geffen; Sylvia Robinson?
11 I Love Lucy; Seinfeld; Roseanne; Curb Your Enthusiasm; Home Improvement?
12 Plain; twill; satin; basket; leno?
13 River Tay; whale in the Tay; Tay Bridge collapse; new Tay Bridge?
14 Margaret Court; Evonne Goolagong Cawley; Kim Clijsters?
15 Serjeant at Arms; top sumo referees; Penny Mordaunt?

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