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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Thomas Eaton

What links Pam Ayres and the Chuckle Brothers? The Saturday quiz

Pam Ayres performs at Bristol Hippodrome, 6th April 1977
Pam Ayres performing at Bristol Hippodrome, April 1977. Photograph: Mirrorpix/Getty Images

The questions

1 Who was refused entry to George IV’s coronation in 1821?
2 Which 2011 single is the UK’s bestselling song never to reach No 1?
3 Poison dart is a highly toxic group of what creatures?
4 Which American covered the last coronation as Inquiring Camera Girl?
5 What did the carrack Victoria complete in 1522?
6 Which breakfast food was developed by Dr Bircher-Benner?
7 What is the smallest US city with an NFL team?
8 Who addressed 25 poems to Lesbia?
What links:
9
Bartitsu; capoeira; krav maga; pankration; savate?
10 First and second fermentation; lees ageing; riddling; disgorging; dosage?
11 Janitor; febrile; marriage; apricot; mayor; junior?
12 Pam Ayres; Su Pollard; Les Dawson; Chuckle Brothers; Paul Daniels?
13 Golden; grey; ringed; little ringed?
14 Cy Coleman (1983); Maurice Ravel (1984); Irving Berlin (1994)?
15 Edinburgh; the Christian Bible; St Andrews Links; Cheltenham racecourse?

Painting of the coronation of King George IV in Westminster Abbey, London, 19th July, 1821. Artist: Frederick Christian Lewis
The coronation of George IV … but who’s missing? Photograph: Heritage Images/Getty Images

The answers

1 Caroline of Brunswick (his estranged wife).
2 Moves Like Jagger by Maroon 5 featuring Christina Aguilera.
3 Frogs.
4 Jacqueline Bouvier (later Kennedy, for the Washington Times-Herald).
5 First circumnavigation of the world.
6 Muesli.
7 Green Bay, Wisconsin (Green Bay Packers).
8 Catullus.
9 Martial arts (not from east Asia): Victorian England; Brazil; Israel; ancient Greece; France.
10 Parts of the champagne-making process.
11 Words starting with month abbreviations (Jan-Jun).
12 Found fame on Opportunity Knocks.
13 Plovers.
14 Wrote music for Torvill and Dean’s medal-winning ice dances: Barnum; Boléro; Let’s Face the Music and Dance.
15 Old and new parts: Old and New Towns; Old and New Testaments; Old and New golf courses; Old and New courses.

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