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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Thomas Eaton

Which country is the fourth most successful in Olympic swimming? The Saturday quiz

Olympic swimming pool start line with platforms for competitors to dive into the water, numbered one to eight for the eight different lanes
Made a false start on the Olympic swimming clue? Photograph: vuk8691/Getty Images

The questions

1 Whose last words in 1963 were “Nobody’s gonna shoot at me”?
2 What symbol originated as a ligature of the letters e and t?
3 What is the largest artificial prehistoric mound in Europe?
4 Which marsupial is the only non-primate with fingerprints?
5 Which pop star went into space in April?
6 The old Hotel Moskva appears on bottles of what spirit?
7 In what decade was divorce legalised in Ireland?
8 Which landlocked country is the fourth most successful in Olympic swimming?
What links:
9
Harry Bailey; Joss Merlyn; Abbey Potterson; Mistress Quickly; the Thénardiers?
10 Spanish, 1701-14; Austrian, 1740-48; Roy family, 2018-23?
11 Main belt; trojans; near-Earth?
12 Dominica; Guatemala; Kiribati; Papua New Guinea; Uganda?
13 45th state; largest city in Nebraska; Au; queen of the Roman gods; Excalibur?
14 SET India; Cocomelon; T-Series; MrBeast?
15 Basket V; hand and net VII; base IX; foot XI?

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