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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Thomas Eaton

What links pickle, fish, chip and pastry? The Saturday quiz

Two rows of pickles on an orange background
Fish and chip clue got you in a pickle? Photograph: Paul Taylor/Getty Images

The questions

1 Which vessel has its forward guns trained on London Gateway services?
2 What household utility is tested for packet loss, latency and jitter?
3 Who was the first English monarch to be excommunicated?
4 Where was “Robocop” elected mayor in 2002?
5 The blue-ringed are highly venomous species of which marine creature?
6 What extreme sport was popularised by New Zealander AJ Hackett?
7 Who edited Blue Peter for 26 years?
8 Which board game’s world champion appropriately wins $20,580?
What links:
9
All in the Family; Welcome to Flatch; Sanford and Son; Us & Them?
10 Lady day; midsummer’s day; Michaelmas; Christmas?
11 Fate; Strange; Doom; Manhattan?
12 Turkana; Nyasa; Tanganyika; Victoria?
13 Makes honey; eg Baltic; colourful crow; wait in line; eg oolong?
14 Chip; fish; pastry; pickle; salad; toasting?
15 My Early Life; Emma; The Fighting Temeraire; Computing Machinery and Intelligence?

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