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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Thomas Eaton

What links Peggy Guggenheim and Ezra Pound? The Saturday quiz

American art collector and millionaire Peggy Guggenheim in the entrance hall of her Venetian palace in 1961
Peggy Guggenheim got you puzzled? Photograph: Keystone Features/Getty Images

The questions

1 The King’s Guide to the Sands assists with crossing what?
2 What does the horned lizard squirt from its eye?
3 Rishi Sunak is the first UK prime minister to have which degree?
4 Synonymicon is another name for what type of book?
5 Which British explorer disappeared in the Amazon in 1925?
6 Where do the presidential guard wear a fustanella?
7 Which sailing trophy is known as the Auld Mug?
8 Whose 10th symphony was assembled by Barry Cooper?
What links:
9 Yorkshire; Virgin Mary; student anti-Nazi movement?
10 Lauren James; Millie Bright; Wayne Rooney; David Beckham; Ray Wilkins?
11 Peggy Guggenheim; Igor Stravinsky; Sergei Diaghilev; Ezra Pound?
12 Wales (60th); Northern Ireland (76th); England (113th); Scotland (334th)?
13 Monica Ali; John Steinbeck; Richard Yates; David Mitchell?
14 Kesha; ASAP Rocky; Ty Dolla Sign?
15 Henri IV of France; James II & VII; John Newman; Evelyn Waugh; Graham Greene?

A Texas horned lizard resting on a rock with a blurred stone background.
Here’s looking at you, horned lizard. Photograph: Shoemcfly/Getty Images/iStockphoto

The answers

1 Morecambe Bay.
2 Blood.
3 MBA.
4 Thesaurus.
5 Percy Fawcett.
6 Greece (kilt-like garment).
7 America’s Cup.
8 Beethoven.
9 White Rose symbol.
10 England footballers sent off in the World Cup.
11 Non-Italians buried in Venice.
12 UK saints’ days (number of day in non-leap year).
13 Wrote novels with streets in the title: Brick Lane; Cannery Row; Revolutionary Road; Utopia Avenue.
14 Dollar signs in stage names : Ke$ha; A$AP Rocky; Ty Dolla $ign.
15 Converted to Catholicism.

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