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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Thomas Eaton

What links UN peacekeepers and the Virgin Mary? The Saturday Quiz

Blue UN helmets on a shelf, waiting to be deployed
Got your thinking cap on for the UN peacekeeper clue? Photograph: AtK/Getty Images

The questions

1 Which former head of state was arrested in London in 1998?
2 Where is Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump a world heritage site?
3 What mammals are toothed or baleen?
4 What is the only active volcano on mainland Europe?
5 Which film set did Robin Williams call “Stalag Altman”?
6 Which element is named after Japan in Japanese?
7 In which sport do players warm up in the bullpen?
8 What classical music magazine has been in print since 1923?
What links:
9
Peter Taylor; Stuart Pearce; Sam Allardyce?
10 Virgin Mary; Jonathan Buttall; UN peacekeepers; Pontins entertainers?
11 Britain (1812); Mexico (1846); Spain (1898); Germany (1917)?
12 Parker; Rippon; Scully; Aspel; Bruce?
13 Countess; Garden; History; Hours; Pilgrim?
14 Aquitaine; Provence; Castile?
15 Another Country; Daisy Pulls It Off; The Browning Version; The History Boys?

Head and shoulders image of Robin Williams, pictured wearing a shirt at a press conference
Raring to go on the Robin Williams clue? Photograph: Vera Anderson/WireImage

The answers

1 General Pinochet.
2 Canada (Alberta).
3 Whales.
4 Vesuvius.
5 Popeye.
6 Nihonium.
7 Baseball.
8 Gramophone.
9 Had one game as England football manager.
10 Wear blue: in religious art; Blue Boy in Gainsborough painting; Blue Helmets; Bluecoats.
11 First four times US Congress declared war.
12 Main presenters of Antiques Roadshow.
13 The Secret… novels: Eva Ibbotson; Frances Hodgson Burnett; Donna Tartt; Mick Herron; John le Carré.
14 Queen Eleanors, consorts of: Henry II; Henry III; Edward I.
15 Plays set in schools: Julian Mitchell; Denise Deegan; Terence Rattigan; Alan Bennett.

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