SATURDAY QUIZ

Chris Maume presents his weekly general knowledge quiz

1. Who are the above, and what job links them?

2. Contract, eyes emoji, in the deep, maul, on the river, pin, stock, stone, thunder revue, tobacco: what’s the link?

3. What links the Crystal Palace manager Patrick Vieira and his Nantes counterpart Antoine Kombouaré?

4. Which actor died on this day in 1977, a few weeks before winning a posthumous Oscar? And who is the only other actor to emulate him in that regard?

5. A rebellion in Japan in 1877 by disaffected samurai was named after the region where it began; the region also gives its name to the citrus fruit it imported to the West. What is it?

6. On this day in 1972 Queen Margrethe II ascended the throne of Denmark. She was the country’s first queen since 1412 – and the first monarch since 1513 not to bear one of which two names?

7. The solar topee hat, traditionally worn by European military personnel, especially British, in Asia and Africa, is better known as what?

8. “There is something that governments care far more about than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy.” A line from a speech by whom, at the Royal Albert Hall in 1912?

9. Richard Burton, Queen Victoria and the recently retired cyclist Alex Dowsett: what’s the medical link?

10. A country that became independent of Yugoslavia in 1991; a country that became independent of Sudan in 2011; a country that became independent of Indonesia in 2002; a country that lasted from 1949 until 1990: what’s the link?

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