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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Thomas Eaton

What links David Bowie with nitrous oxide and Frans Hals? The Saturday quiz

Singer David Bowie performing The Serious Moonlight show in Vancouver, Canada. August 9, 1982
David Bowie in 1982. Photograph: Armando Gallo/Getty Images

The questions

1 Which king of Corinth had a proverbially fruitless task?
2 What winter sport is played at a bonspiel?
3 Which ceramicist produced Bizarre ware?
4 What is the highest mountain in the southern hemisphere?
5 Who was first played by Pal in a 1943 film?
6 Which Booker nominee has been called the “poet laureate of Twitter”?
7 The great black-backed is the largest of which bird family?
8 Which lumberjack created the Grand Canyon?
What links:
9
Caret; dinkus; guillemet; obelus; pilcrow?
10 Kookaburra; nitrous oxide; Charles Penrose; David Bowie; Frans Hals?
11 Picric acid; magenta; mauveine; Congo red?
12 Wellington Beehive; Coventry Cathedral; Hyde Park Barracks?
13 Vickers; Brinell; Rockwell; Leeb; Mohs?
14 BBC; Soviet Union; Irish Free State?
15 Hay fever; volcanic activity; egg-eating mammals; asteroid strike?

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