What links champagne, Mozart and veal pie? The Saturday quiz brings you a fresh set of questions to challenge your knowledge. From the 'Intransigents' to Simple Comforts and Cookery Bible, test your wits with our latest quiz.
The Questions
- What began to tilt in 1178?
- Which deep-sea fish attracts prey with a glowing lure called an esca?
- Habitat 67 is a Brutalist housing development in which North American city?
- Which founder member of the Football League no longer exists?
- What was Barbara Castle’s 1969 plan to improve industrial relations?
- Vasco Núñez de Balboa was the first European to see what?
- Which artistic group were originally called the 'Intransigents'?
- Which 1963 fantasy film did Tom Hanks declare the 'greatest movie ever made'?
What Links:
- Simple Comforts; Cookery Bible; How to Be a Domestic Goddess?
- I’m a Believer; I Wanna Be Yours; Feel Good Inc?
- Champagne (Chekhov); Mozart (Mahler); veal pie (Pitt the Younger); whisky (Dylan Thomas)?
- Altes; Bode; Neues; Pergamon?
- Estonian; Finnish; Hungarian; Sámi?
- Dupplin Moor; Halidon Hill; Culblean; Neville’s Cross?
- Aird; Dickinson & Sawyer; Edgar; Hunt; Mundson; Poulain?
The Answers
- Leaning Tower of Pisa.
- Anglerfish.
- Montreal.
- Accrington FC.
- In Place of Strife (white paper).
- Pacific Ocean (1513).
- Impressionists.
- Jason and the Argonauts.
- Books by successive Bake Off judges: Mary Berry; Prue Leith; Nigella Lawson.
- Most-streamed songs by 'primate' bands: The Monkees; Arctic Monkeys; Gorillaz.
- Subjects of their last words, reportedly.
- Museums on Berlin’s Museum Island.
- Uralic languages.
- Battles in the Second War of Scottish Independence (14th century).
- Surnames of title characters in films: Carol; Thelma & Louise; Marnie; Laura; Gilda; Amélie.
