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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Thomas Eaton

Blondie were on the first cover of which magazine in 1978? The Saturday quiz

Head and shoulders portrait of Debbie Harry and the four other members of the pop group Blondie, from 1977
One way or another, you’ll need to get the better of the Blondie clue. Photograph: Ian Dagnall Computing/Alamy

The questions

1 The word “phony” appears 35 times in which 1951 novel?
2 Mammals of which order have no stomach?
3 Which 1913 exhibition introduced the US to modern art?
4 Blondie, in November 1978, were on the first cover of which magazine?
5 What device is often marked PRNDL?
6 Which Swiss psychiatrist developed the inkblot test?
7 Bondye is the creator god in which Caribbean religion?
8 The Blandy family have sold which drink for more than 200 years?
What links:
9
LB Jefferies; Peter Parker; Laura Mars; Jimmy Olsen?
10 Clare Hall, Cambridge; Byker Wall, Newcastle; The Ark, London?
11 390BC; 410; 455; 546; 1084; 1527?
12 Katharine Hepburn; June Allyson; Winona Ryder; Saoirse Ronan?
13 Blocky; dome; dry-dock; pinnacle; tabular; wedge?
14 Google; Cisco Systems; Hewlett-Packard; Capital One; Nike?
15 Gilded urn; Frederick, Duke of York and Albany; Horatio Nelson?

The answers

1 The Catcher in the Rye.
2 Monotremata (monotremes: platypus and echidna).
3 Armory Show.
4 Smash Hits.
5 Car’s automatic gearstick.
6 (Hermann) Rorschach.
7 Haitian Vodou.
8 Madeira wine.
9 Fictional photographers: Rear Window; Spider-Man; The Eyes of Laura Mars; Superman.
10 Designs by architect Ralph Erskine.
11 Sackings of Rome.
12 Played Jo March in films of Little Women.
13 Types of iceberg.
14 Major US companies founded by Stanford University alumni.
15 Sit on top of London columns: The Monument; Duke of York Column; Nelson’s.

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