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Saturday, October 31, 2026

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

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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:
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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?

Rachmaninoff, the composer and pianist, sits at his grand piano, facing the camera in a black and white image from 1938
Rhapsodising over the Rachmaninoff clue? Photograph: SuperStock/Alamy

The answers

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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