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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Thomas Eaton

What links Miss Jean Brodie and Trainspotting? The Saturday quiz

Maggie Smith in a still from The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, in a classroom of students all with books open on their desks and gazing intently at her
Bewildered by the Miss Jean Brodie clue? Photograph: Everett/Shutterstock

The questions

1 What is the world’s largest capacity hydroelectric dam?
2 Action 2000 was a campaign to warn about what issue?
3 Who did Byron describe as “Britannia’s god of war”?
4 Why will Piano Day be celebrated on 29 March this year?
5 Caitlin Clark is a US star of which sport?
6 Which film studio was nicknamed Hollywood on the Tiber?
7 Stamps with “Island” on them come from which country?
8 Which comedy festival debuted in Montreal in 1982?
What links:
9
Montgomery Clift; Marilyn Monroe; Diana, Princess of Wales?
10 Chew Valley; Galloway; Hoxne; Staffordshire; Vale of York?
11 Thomas Edison; Lloyd George; John Higgins; Stanley Matthews; Simon Whitlock?
12 Bare; dear; hair; links; mousse; wail?
13 Greyfriars Bobby; Hallam Foe; The Body Snatcher; The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; Trainspotting?
14 Kings County, NY; killed Tybalt; Spanish Oscar-winner; 22nd Canadian prime minister?
15 Less than 80 decibels; no more than 12 seconds; not before 12 noon or after 7pm?

The answers

1 Three Gorges Dam (Yangtze river).
2 Millennium bug.
3 Horatio Nelson.
4 88th day of the year (88 keys).
5 Basketball.
6 Cinecittà.
7 Iceland.
8 Just for Laughs (Juste pour rire).
9 Candle in the Wind song: original inspiration; original subject; 1997 rewrite.
10 Recent archaeological hoards discovered in the UK.
11 Nicknamed the Wizard: W of Menlo Park; Welsh W; W of Wishaw; W of dribble; the W, in darts.
12 Animal homophones: bear; deer; hare; lynx; moose; whale.
13 Films set in Edinburgh.
14 Beckham children: Brooklyn; Romeo (in Shakespeare play); (Penélope) Cruz; (Stephen) Harper.
15 Rules on playing ice-cream chimes.

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