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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Thomas Eaton

What links Billy Idol and Douglas Coupland? The Saturday quiz

Billy Idol posing in front of a white wall in 1984
Billy Idol in 1984. Photograph: Richard E Aaron/Redferns

The questions

1 Whose Man in a Red Turban (1433) might be the first self-portrait?
2 Which land mammal has the longest tongue?
3 Who founded the National Viewers’ and Listeners’ Association?
4 Which isotope revolutionised archaeological dating?
5 Which European language is divided into High and Low dialects?
6 In North American sport, who was the Great One?
7 Which dog lives with Chilli, Bandit and Bingo?
8 How did Dervla Murphy travel from Ireland to India?
What links:
9 Gangnam Style; Baby Shark; Macarena; YMCA; Saturday Night?
10 Karolinska Institute; Swedish Academy; Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences?
11 100 (12); 50 (7); 20 (7)?
12 Charles Hamblett and Jane Deverson; Billy Idol; Douglas Coupland?
13 Swilcan Bridge; Grannie Clark’s Wynd; Elysian Fields; Valley of Sin?
14 .ma; .dz; .tn; .ly; .eg?
15 Julian Kaye; Frank Lucas; Patrick Bateman; Chris Kyle?

Irish writer Dervla Murphy in 1990, smiling, with a cat in her arms, in front of the doorway of an old building
Dervla Murphy in 1990. Photograph: Nutan/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images

The answers

1 Jan Van Eyck.
2 Giant anteater.
3 Mary Whitehouse.
4 Carbon-14.
5 German.
6 Wayne Gretzky (ice hockey).
7 Bluey (children’s TV series).
8 By bike (as documented in her 1965 book Full Tilt).
9 Songs with choregraphed dance routines.
10 Nobel Prize selecting bodies: Medicine; Literature; Physics, Chemistry & Economics.
11 Non-round UK coins: pence (number of sides).
12 Generation X: wrote 1964 book; singer in punk band; wrote 1991 novel.
13 Features of the Old Course, St Andrews.
14 Internet domains in North Africa: Morocco; Algeria; Tunisia; Libya; Egypt.
15 Title characters in the films: American Gigolo; American Gangster; American Psycho; American Sniper.

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