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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Thomas Eaton

What links Julian Assange with Dominic Cummings and Louis Wain? The Saturday quiz

Louis Wain’s drawing of cats at the barbers, 1892.
Louis Wain’s cats at the barbers, 1892. Photograph: Cannasue/Getty Images/iStockphoto

The questions

1 Which British monarch had a dragon tattoo?
2 Which city has hosted both the summer and winter Olympics?
3 Virginia Woolf co-founded which publishing house?
4 What should be back in 2061?
5 Which drug is named after an ancient god of dreams?
6 Who painted himself and his wife naked with a leg of lamb?
7 The 92220 Evening Star was the last of what?
8 Drop, cover and hold on is the safety drill for what?
What links:
9
African sacred; giant; scarlet; northern bald; Australian white?
10 Julian Assange; Dominic Cummings; Alan Turing; Louis Wain?
11 Gott! Welch’ Dunkel hier!; E lucevan le stelle; Vois ma misère, hélas!?
12 32 London Bridge Street; 30 St Mary Axe; 1 Canada Square?
13 Punta Gallinas, Colombia, and Cape Froward, Chile?
14 Celtic; Mogul; Renegade; Trailblazer; Eagle?
15 Mars-la-Tour; Gravelotte; Sedan; Le Mans?

beach at Punta Gallinas, Colombia
What links this place to a cape in Chile? Photograph: Luke Farmer/Alamy

The answers

1 George V.
2 Beijing (2008 and 2022).
3 Hogarth Press.
4 Halley’s comet.
5 Morphine (Morpheus).
6 Stanley Spencer.
7 Steam locomotive built by British Railways.
8 Earthquakes.

9 Species of ibis.
10 Played on screen by Benedict Cumberbatch.
11 Opera arias sung by prisoners: Fidelio; Tosca; Samson and Delilah.
12 Addresses of London skyscrapers: Shard; Gherkin; Canary Wharf tower.
13 Northernmost and southernmost points of mainland South America.
14 Secret Service code names for US presidents: Biden; Trump; Obama; W Bush; Clinton.
15 Franco-Prussian war battles.

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