SATURDAY QUIZ

Chris Maume presents his weekly general knowledge quiz

1. Who are the above, and which school did they all attend?

2. Which king, best known for something that may not have happened, died on this day in 1035?

3. “Politics is just like show business: you have a hell of an opening, coast for a while and then have a hell of a close.” The

words of which future US president in 1966?

4. In December 1990 the Switzerland football team was beaten 4-0 by a side that had not played since the Second World War. Which side?

5. Originally, In 1999, Ecce Homo by Mark Wallinger; currently, Antelope by Samson Kambalu. What’s the link?

6. On this day in 1954, which immigration centre ceased operations after 62 years?

7. Which show would be, one of its participants told the press, “anti-establishment, anti-capital punishment, anti-colour bar and anti-1960. But it will be all very serious stuff, sharp, bitter and to the point”?

8. Scorpion and Felix: A Humoristic Novel, heavily influenced by Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, was written while the author was a student studying law in Berlin. He realised it was not publishable, and wrote: “All my creations crumbled to nothing.” He spent the last 34 years of his life in London. Who was he?

9. Which sea in the Indian Ocean is bounded on one side by Myanmar and Thailand, and takes its name from the islands that form its north-western boundary?

10. Which poets are represented by these anagrams? a) ramrod with willows b) his laudable career c) a really sublime twit d) lamblike wail e) a vital sylph f) toilets.

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