THE TELEGRAPH FAMILY
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...
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