SATURDAY QUIZ

Chris Maume presents his weekly general knowledge quiz

1. Who are the above, and how are they linked?

2. Which fashion designer said: “It’s too easy to forgive. I love revenge”, and “I hate rich people who live below their means”? His floral budget was €1.5m a year, and he once sent Brigitte Macron a 5ft bouquet in the shape of the Eiffel Tower.

3. Which annual event in June will this year have a “Lookbook” encouraging attendees “to be a little more unconventional and inventive in the way they dress, and how they source their looks”?

4. On this day in 1834, six farm labourers were sentenced to penal transportation to Australia for forming a trade union. Where were they from?

5. “If Mrs Thatcher wins on Thursday, I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, and I warn you not to grow old.” The words of whom in 1983?

6. Only one women’s tennis doubles partnership has won the grand slam of all four majors in the same year. Which one?

7. What links a 1948 Western, the first in Howard Hawks’ Cavalry Triloƿ; a US military installation in Kentucky next door to a vault building that is usually given its name; a city in Florida 30 miles north of Miami on the Atlantic coast; and a town in the western Highlands, generally regarded as the gateway to Ben Nevis?

8. The equator passes through 11 countries. Which is the largest by area and which is the smallest?

9. What was the name of the state of Manchuria when it was a puppet state of Japan between 1932 and 1945?

10. What name links a novel by George Eliot and an actress and director perhaps best known for portraying Emma Woodhouse in Jane Austen’s Emma for the BBC?

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