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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Thomas Eaton

Which writer’s heart was rumoured to have been eaten by a cat? The Saturday quiz

British shorthair cat on red desk
What’s new, pussycat? Photograph: 101cats/Getty Images/iStockphoto

Questions

1 Which writer’s heart was rumoured to have been eaten by a cat?
2 Who contested the videotape format war?
3 The Lambert Centre memorial marks the middle of what?
4 Who was the first English monarch to reign for more than 50 years?
5 In Japan, fugu is what hazardous delicacy?
6 What is the UK’s most-visited museum?
7 “Grey goo” is shorthand for the hypothetical threat from what?
8 What is the largest US city founded in the 20th century?
What links:
9
Rome, 44BC; Egypt, 48BC; Anatolia, 53BC?
10 Mary Pickford; Charlie Chaplin; Douglas Fairbanks; DW Griffith?
11 Cayenne; Papeete; Basse-Terre; Mamoudzou; Nouméa?
12 Vanadium and thorium (and no others)?
13 2021 US Open; 1977 Wimbledon; 1976 French Open?
14 Toasted sandwiches; Sanskrit philologist; football stickers?
15 Maximum Overdrive; Stand By Me; Mercy; The Shawshank Redemption?

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