SATURDAY QUIZ

Chris Maume presents his weekly general knowledge quiz

1 Who are the above and how are they linked?

2 Overseen by the Civil Contingencies Secretariat, what is Operation Yellowhammer?

3 In which 1969 satirical, semi-autobiographical account of the Second World War is Billy Pilgrim locked up as a zoo exhibit with another human, Montana Wildhack, on the planet Tralfamadore?

4 Alastair Cook (12,472), Kumar Sangakkara (12,400), Brian Lara (11,953), Shivnarine Chanderpaul (11,867), Allan Border (11,174): what’s the link?

5 Ten years ago today the largest bankruptcy filing in US history took place. Who filed?

6 What name is given to the practice of dry-rubbing or marinating meat with citrus juice, allspice and scotch bonnet, then wrapping it in banana or plantain leaves and cooking it in a pit fire or hole fire over

allspice branches?

7 What currently links Sophie Raworth, Justin Webb, Nick Robinson, Martha Kearney, John Pienaar, Andrew Marr, Mishal Husain and John Humphrys?

8 What is Thomas A Swift’s Electric Rifle better known as?

9 Which current British sitcom takes its title from a line in the book Groats-Worth of Wit by the playwright and pamphleteer Robert Greene?

10 What are UAVs better known as?

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