What links Igor Tudor, Eric Ramsay and Brian Clough? The Saturday quiz from carpetbaggers to Melodifestivalen tests your knowledge with a series of intriguing questions.
The Questions
- What theatrical legacy did Mathew Prichard receive on his ninth birthday?
- What conditions does the Tdap vaccine protect against?
- The bestselling book in the US in 1981 was a guide to solving what?
- What is selected each year at the Melodifestivalen?
- Carpetbaggers were profiteers in the aftermath of which conflict?
- The confectionery lokum is better known as what?
- In 1996, which UK sport moved from a winter to a summer season?
- Who founded the Peripatetic school of philosophy?
What Links
- Thomas Tyers; Hester Piozzi; John Hawkins; James Boswell?
- Admiralty Islands; New Britain; New Hanover; New Ireland?
- Millbank, 1897; Merseyside, 1988; Cornwall, 1993; Bankside, 2000?
- Sodium (1); carbon (2); oxygen (3); sulphur (4); tin (10)?
- Kelpie; melusine; naiad; nixie; rusalka; selkie?
- Igor Tudor at Spurs; Eric Ramsay at WBA; Brian Clough and Jock Stein at Leeds?
- Made in America; -30-; Felina; Person to Person; The Iron Throne?
The Answers
- Rights to Agatha Christie’s play The Mousetrap (he was her grandson).
- Tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis (whooping cough).
- Rubik’s Cube.
- Sweden’s Eurovision entry.
- American civil war.
- Turkish delight.
- Rugby league.
- Aristotle.
- Wrote biographies of Samuel Johnson (in publication order).
- Main components of the Bismarck Archipelago in the south-west Pacific.
- Tate gallery openings: Britain; Liverpool; St Ives; Modern.
- Number of stable isotopes of chemical elements.
- Water spirits in European folklore.
- 44-day football managerial tenures.
- Final episodes of “golden age” TV series: The Sopranos; The Wire; Breaking Bad; Mad Men; Game of Thrones.
