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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Thomas Eaton

What links the Coldstream Guards band and the Style Council? The Saturday quiz

Paul Weller playing guitar, with the Style Council at Live Aid, July 1985
Paul Weller playing with the Style Council. Photograph: Phil Dent/Redferns

The questions

1 Lana Peters, who died in Wisconsin in 2011, was whose daughter?
2 What is the world’s northernmost national capital city?
3 In France, what means of transport is a Montgolfière?
4 Which king of England was born in Caernarfon?
5 What unique sporting double did Golden Miller achieve in 1934?
6 Which medical remedy was derived from cinchona bark?
7 What US exchange was the world’s first electronic stock market?
8 What was Lina, owned by Albert Einstein?
What links:
9
Guérin; Rimet; Rous; Havelange; Blatter?
10 Coldstream Guards band; Status Quo; the Style Council; the Boomtown Rats?
11 Angoroj (1964); Incubus (1966); Gerda Malaperis! (2006); La Patro (2007)?
12 Kent; New Jersey, US; Victoria, Australia?
13 Baruch; Esdras; Judith; Susanna; Tobit?
14 A in 1903; B and C in 1904; F in 1905; T in 1908?
15 South-west Norfolk; Richmond; Holborn and St Pancras?

The answers

1 Joseph Stalin (and Nadezhda Alliluyeva).
2 Reykjavik (Iceland).
3 Hot air balloon.
4 Edward II.
5 Cheltenham Gold Cup and Grand National.
6 Quinine.
7 Nasdaq.
8 Violin.
9 Presidents of Fifa.
10 First acts of Live Aid in 1985.
11 Feature films in Esperanto.
12 Garden nicknames: garden of England; garden state.
13 Books of the Apocrypha (King James’s Bible).
14 Launch of Ford car models.
15 Constituencies of recent PMs: Truss; Sunak; Starmer.

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