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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Thomas Eaton

What links Elton John and Viola Davis? The Saturday quiz

Head and shoulders shot of actor Viola Davis attending the Cannes film festival
Is the Viola Davis clue music to your ears? Photograph: Patrícia de Melo Moreira/AFP/Getty Images

The questions

1 Player 456 won 45.6bn won on what?
2 Masahiro Mori coined what term for our unease at human-like robots?
3 A cosmic year is the time the sun takes to do what?
4 Hornsea 2 in the North Sea is the world’s largest what?
5 Which two US states give their names to chemical elements?
6 Whose Blazing World is claimed to be the first sci-fi novel by a woman?
7 The term “fifth column” originated in which conflict?
8 Mash of at least 51% corn is used to make which whiskey?
What links:
9 II (Augustus); III (the Bold); IV (the Fair); V (the Tall)?
10 Tie up; sealing food in tins; smallest Yorkshire city; legal rules of society?
11 Alan Menken; Jennifer Hudson; Viola Davis; Elton John?
12 NTSC; PAL; SECAM?
13 Berlin; Berne; California; Warwickshire?
14 Crewe Alexandra; Sampdoria; Tottenham Hotspur; Vasco da Gama; Willem II?
15 Samaritan woman; Draupadi; Wife of Bath; Gail Platt?

Rear view of a humanoid robot and young woman holding hands
Racking your brains over the robot clue? Photograph: fotografixx/Getty Images

The answers

1 Squid Game (TV series).
2 Uncanny valley.
3 Orbit the centre of the Milky Way galaxy (about 225m years).
4 Offshore windfarm.
5 California and Tennessee.
6 Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1666).
7 Spanish civil war.
8 Bourbon.
9 Bynames of French king Philips.
10 Shortest serving British PMs: Truss; Canning; (Earl of) Ripon; Law.
11 Most recent to complete (competitive) Egot award set.
12 Video format standards.
13 Flags feature bears.
14 Football clubs named after real people: Princess Alexandra; Andrea Doria; Henry Percy (Hotspur); Vasco da Gama (Rio club); Dutch king.
15 Fictional women with five husbands: John’s gospel; Mahabharata; Canterbury Tales; Coronation Street.

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