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What links Suzi Quatro, Cream and Blink-182? The Saturday quiz

What links Suzi Quatro, Cream and Blink-182? The Saturday quiz

What links Suzi Quatro, Cream and Blink-182? 10 Blink-182; Cream; Motörhead; The Police; Suzi Quatro; Thin Lizzy?

From Hugh Dennis and Michael Keaton to galea, gladius and scutum, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz

1 Tilcayo is the first new species of what identified in more than a century? 2 What reached 126 mph descending Stoke Bank on 3 July 1938? 3 Ranavalona I, nicknamed the “female Caligula”, was queen of which island? 4 Who won the Fifa World Cup as player, manager and assistant manager? 5 Opened in 1817, what is Britain’s oldest public art gallery? 6 119.5 seconds is the optimum time to pour which drink? 7 Which border was officially defined by the 1237 treaty of York? 8 Which on-screen partnership began with Flying Down to Rio? What links: 9 Cingulum militare; galea; lorica; gladius and scutum? 10 Blink-182; Cream; Motörhead; The Police; Suzi Quatro; Thin Lizzy? 11 Boiler room; pig butchering; pump and dump; 419? 12 Sinbad in the Abbasid Caliphate and Admiral Zheng He in the early Ming dynasty? 13 Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier; Chopin’s 24 Preludes; Rachmaninoff’s 24 Preludes? 14 David Bowie; Albert Brooks; Hugh Dennis; Michael Keaton; Katy Perry? 15 The Dunciad; Her Kind; One Art; The Prestige?

1 Wild cat (found in Bolivia). 2 LNER Class A4 4468 Mallard (world speed record for steam locomotive). 3 Madagascar (19th century). 4 Mário Zagallo: 1958 and 1962, 1970, 1994. 5 Dulwich Picture Gallery. 6 Pint of Guinness (according to Guinness). 7 England/Scotland. 8 Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. 9 Roman legionary’s equipment: belt; helmet; armour; sword and shield. 10 Rock acts in which the singer played bass. 11 Types of scam/fraud. 12 Both famously made seven voyages. 13 Works that include all 24 major and minor keys. 14 Changed professional names to avoid confusion with other people: Davy Jones; Albert Einstein; Peter Dennis; Michael Douglas; Kate Hudson. 15 Literary works by religiously named authors: Alexander Pope; Anne Sexton; Elizabeth Bishop; Christopher Priest.

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