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Easter is all about family time, this year perhaps more than ever. Put your heads together to tackle our bumper quiz – and don’t forget to involve granny via Skype...

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1

Cartoonist Matt is the son of columnist Oliver Pritchett. But which of these was his grandfathe­r? (a) Novelist and biographer Sir Victor Pritchett

(b) Mathematic­ian Sir Algernon Pritchett

(c) General Sir Humphrey Pritchett

2

Sunday columnist Sophia Money-Coutts comes from a banking family – but also a journalist­ic family. From which Telegraph editor is she directly descended? (a) Sir Max Hastings

(b) Lord (Bill) Deedes (c) Sir Edwin Arnold

3

Which Telegraph editor claimed to have been seduced on the art-room chaise longue of his public school by the future jazz musician George Melly, a charge that Melly denied? (a) Colin Coote (b) Sir Peregrine Worsthorne

(c) Maurice Green

4

Telegraph food writer William Sitwell is the grandson of which distinguis­hed cultural Sitwell?

(a) Sir Sacheverel­l Sitwell (b) Dame Edith Sitwell (c) Sir Osbert Sitwell

5

Telegraph archivist Gavin Fuller was the youngest-ever winner of which television quiz? (a) Mastermind

(b) Who Wants to Be a Millionair­e?

(c) Eight out of 10 Cats Does Countdown

6

Telegraph columnist Charles Moore’s authorised biography of Margaret Thatcher runs to how many pages in total? (a) 629 (b) 1,629 (c) 2,629

7

Telegraph correspond­ent Clare Hollingwor­th obtained a story widely regarded as “the scoop of the [20th] century”. What was it? (a) The Watergate burglary (b) Outbreak of the Second World War

(c) Outbreak of the First World War

8

Sunday writers Pip Sloan (left), Sophia Money-Coutts and Boudicca Fox-Leonard all come from fine families. But only one is entitled to prefix her name with “The Honourable”. Which one? (a) Pip

(b) Boudicca

(c) Sophia

9

Which well-known organisati­on subsequent­ly occupied The Telegraph’s former home at 135 Fleet Street? (a) Google

(b) Goldman Sachs

(c) MI5

10

Almost exactly 30 years ago, Telegraph racing correspond­ent Marcus Armytage was the last amateur winner of which race, in a record time which still stands? (a) The Derby

(b) The Cheltenham Gold Cup

(c) The Grand National

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