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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Thomas Eaton

What phase follows a full moon? The Saturday quiz

Full moon and tree silhouetted at dusk, Masai Mara, Kenya, Africa
Mulling over the moon clue? Photograph: Adam Jones/Getty Images

The questions

1 Which Briton has the most statues erected in their honour?
2 Which parts of the world have no assigned time zones?
3 Whose portrait of Elisabeth Lederer recently sold for $236m?
4 Germany’s Isabell Werth is considered the GOAT in what Olympic sport?
5 Which Old English poem commemorates a battle of AD991?
6 What is the oldest university in the Netherlands?
7 Which US rocker died in Bath in 1960?
8 What phase follows a full moon?
What links:
9
Freud’s unconscious drives; Kipling poem; moon of Jupiter; existing; Pennywise?
10 Phoebe Buffay; Frankenstein’s monster; Lisa Simpson; Spock; Elle Woods?
11 Mount Ulysses, BC and the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, NM?
12 L Frank Baum; Gregory Maguire; Stephen Schwartz; Jon Chu?
13 Mr Brightside; Wonderwall; All of Me; Take Me To Church?
14 PM Brown (4); industrialist Ford (3); king Longshanks (2); saint More (1)?
15 Idrissa Gueye, Everton; Ricardo Fuller, Stoke; Lee Bowyer and Kieron Dyer, Newcastle?

The answers

1 Queen Victoria.
2 North and south poles.
3 Klimt.
4 Dressage.
5 The Battle of Maldon.
6 Leiden.
7 Eddie Cochran.
8 Waning gibbous.
9 i-: id; If–; Io; is; It.
10 Fictional vegetarians.
11 (Approximate) northern and southern ends of Rocky Mountains: British Columbia and New Mexico.
12 Wicked: created Oz; wrote W book; wrote songs for W musical; directed W films.
13 UK’s biggest songs not to reach No 1: the Killers; Oasis; John Legend; Hozier.
14 Thomas the Tank Engine numbers: Gordon, 4; Henry, 3; Edward, 2; Thomas, 1.
15 Footballers sent off for hitting teammates.

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