Saturday Quiz: Test Your Knowledge with 15 Challenging Questions

Saturday Quiz: Test Your Knowledge

What links Igor Tudor, Eric Ramsay and Brian Clough? The Saturday quiz challenges you with 15 questions covering a wide range of topics, from theatrical legacies to water spirits in European folklore.

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?
What links: Admiralty Islands; New Britain; New Hanover; New Ireland?
What links: Millbank, 1897; Merseyside, 1988; Cornwall, 1993; Bankside, 2000?
What links: Sodium (1); carbon (2); oxygen (3); sulphur (4); tin (10)?
What links: Kelpie; melusine; naiad; nixie; rusalka; selkie?
What links: Igor Tudor at Spurs; Eric Ramsay at WBA; Brian Clough and Jock Stein at Leeds?
What links: Made in America; -30-; Felina; Person to Person; The Iron Throne?

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.