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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Thomas Eaton

What links Gene Autry and Sister Luc Gabriel? The Saturday quiz

Country and western singer Gene Autry, dressed in cowboy hat and plaid shirt, poses with two horses, circa 1955
Champing at the bit to solve the Gene Autry clue? Photograph: Archive Photos/Getty Images

The questions

1 During the war, what were stored at Manod slate mine in Wales?
2 Whose house was named after a woman called Grace Toof?
3 Which dance arrived in Britain around 1812?
4 What were clinker or carvel built?
5 Which country was run by a junta known as the Derg?
6 “Life is short. Have an affair” is the motto of which website?
7 Pele’s hair and Pele’s tears are made from what?
8 In religious tradition, which fruit is said to have 613 seeds?
What links:
9
1 (193); 2 (26); 3 (59); 4 (189); 5 (163); 6 (232); 7 (n/a)?
10 Gene Autry; Sister Luc Gabriel; Allan Smethurst?
11 Big Brother; Great British Bake Off; Men Behaving Badly; Neighbours; University Challenge?
12 Elephantine; Gezira; Kitchener; Philae; Sai?
13 Tyson; Douglas; Holyfield; Bowe; Lewis; Usyk?
14 Aglaia, Euphrosyne and Thalia; Cunard, Port of Liverpool and Royal Liver?
15 Blythburgh, Suffolk; Dallas; Los Angeles; Hyannis Port, Massachusetts?

The answers

1 Artworks from the National Gallery.
2 Elvis Presley (Graceland).
3 Waltz.
4 Boat hulls.
5 Ethiopia.
6 Ashley Madison.
7 Lava (cooled).
8 Pomegranate.
9 Lengths in miles of UK motorways.
10 The Singing …: Cowboy; Nun; Postman.
11 TV shows that moved channels: 4 to 5; BBC to 4; ITV to BBC; BBC to 5; ITV to BBC.
12 Islands on the Nile.
13 Undisputed world heavyweight boxing champions.
14 Three Graces: in Greek myth; buildings on Pier Head, Liverpool.
15 Death locations of the Kennedy brothers: Joseph Jr; John; Bobby; Teddy.

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