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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Thomas Eaton

Which songwriter was musical director for Marlene Dietrich? The Saturday quiz

Head shot of Marlene Dietrich as Madeline or Shanghai Lily in the 1932 film Shanghai Express
Marlene Dietrich in the 1932 film Shanghai Express. Photograph: Don English/Getty Images

The questions

1 Three-year-old Eliza Armstrong was the first patient at which hospital?
2 What is the world’s largest trade book fair?
3 Marduk was the chief god of which city?
4 Which songwriter was musical director for Marlene Dietrich?
5 Which three countries border both Russia and China?
6 Hakuhō Shō is considered the greatest ever competitor in which sport?
7 Where is England’s only statue of Bonnie Prince Charlie?
8 How is the boss of Stratton Oakmont described in a film title?
What links:
9
Labino; Lalique; Lipofsky; Liskova; Littleton?
10 Arius; Marcion; Nestorius; Pelagius; Sabellius?
11 Zika virus; chikungunya; West Nile virus; dengue; malaria?
12 Pui Fan Lee; voice of Jack Black; Turin and Piacenza; 84?
13 Cunningham; Owen; Beckham; McManaman; Woodgate?
14 Washington DC (1st and 2nd); Buffalo (3rd); Dallas (4th)?
15 Pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto; programmer Vitalik Buterin; singer Akon?

Statue of Bonnie Prince Charlie on a horse, in Derby, UK
Cracked the Bonnie Prince Charlie clue? Photograph: paulcraven/Getty Images/iStockphoto

The answers

1 Great Ormond Street.
2 Frankfurt.
3 Babylon.
4 Burt Bacharach.
5 Kazakhstan, Mongolia and North Korea.
6 Sumo wrestling.
7 Derby.
8 The Wolf of Wall Street.
9 Glass artists and designers.
10 Originators of early Christian heresies.
11 Main mosquito-borne diseases.
12 Po: Po in Teletubbies; Po in Kung Fu Panda; Po River flows through; Po(lonium) atomic number.
13 Englishmen who have played for Real Madrid football club?.
14 Location of US presidential assassinations.
15 Founded cryptocurrencies: bitcoin; ethereum; akoin.

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