Saturday Quiz: From My Fair Lady to Mesopotamian Civilisations
Saturday Quiz: My Fair Lady to Mesopotamian Civilisations

Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady, 1964. Photograph: Warner Bros/Sportsphoto/Allstar

What links My Fair Lady, Boy on a Dolphin and West Side Story? The Saturday quiz

From Akkadian and Babylonian to ‘ancient, morbid and toxic’, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz

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The questions

  1. The UK’s video recorders were reset in 1997 in advance of what?
  2. Which tree is described by the Woodland Trust as “ancient, morbid, toxic”?
  3. Which Midwest university has the biggest sports stadium in the US?
  4. Henry and Edward are the title characters of what 1886 novella?
  5. Which Hollywood star couldn’t abide wire hangers?
  6. In 1413, whose body was moved from King’s Langley Priory to Westminster Abbey?
  7. Which races are held over the 37-mile Snaefell Mountain Course?
  8. Which soft drink was originally launched as Pickup’s Appetiser?

What links:

  1. Cecily stained glass; Meiping vase; Rodin’s Thinker; Temple Pyx fragment; Wagner garden carpet?
  2. The King and I; Boy on a Dolphin; My Fair Lady; West Side Story?
  3. Fátima; Guadalupe; Knock; La Salette; Walsingham?
  4. Sumerian; Akkadian; Babylonian; Assyrian?
  5. Bayern’s Müller and WBA’s Brown; middleweight Graham; Air Marshal Harris?
  6. I Am Maximus; Tiger Roll; Reynoldstown; Poethlyn?
  7. Archaea; Bacteria; Eukarya?

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The answers

  1. Launch of Channel 5.
  2. Yew.
  3. University of Michigan.
  4. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (RL Stevenson).
  5. Joan Crawford (according to her daughter).
  6. Richard II.
  7. Isle of Man TT races (and Manx Grand Prix).
  8. Tizer.
  9. Artefacts in Glasgow’s Burrell Collection.
  10. Films in which Marni Nixon provided the singing voice: Deborah Kerr; Sophia Loren; Audrey Hepburn; Natalie Wood.
  11. Locations of apparitions of the Virgin Mary (other than Lourdes).
  12. Mesopotamian civilisations.
  13. Nicknamed Bomber: Gerd and Tony; boxer Herol; Arthur.
  14. Double winners of the Grand National.
  15. Three domains of cellular life (according to Carl Woese and others).