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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Thomas Eaton

Who founded the Royal Ballet School in 1926? The Saturday quiz

Pink ballet shoes arranged in a row
Ballet school clue keeping you on your toes? Photograph: Natalia Ganelin/Getty Images

The questions

1 What is Earth’s largest living toothed predator?
2 What 1811 work was “a novel in three volumes, By a Lady”?
3 Who is the only person to play in a Super Bowl and the World Series?
4 What London religious building was built on the site of Tothill Fields prison?
5 In which TV show did contestants recall the contents of a conveyor belt?
6 Who founded the Royal Ballet School in 1926?
7 The event horizon is the boundary marking the limits of what?
8 “Saigon … shit” is which film’s first line of dialogue?
What links:
9
Arabist and archaeologist; pioneering Channel swimmer; Munstead Wood gardener; partnered Toklas?
10 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre; The Dead; 21 Grams; Mayfair Witches?
11 Hindu deity Chhinnamasta; St Denis of Paris; Bertran de Born in Dante; Anne Boleyn’s ghost?
12 Trade and Industry Secretary; Northern Ireland Secretary; Ambassador to the US?
13 Emile Berliner; Chris Blackwell; Ahmet Ertegun; Berry Gordy; Alan McGee?
14 Lambeth terminus; Oxfordshire stately home; purple-red colour; 42,195m race?
15 All the virtues of man without his vices (Byron); The Tempest?

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