The Weekend Quiz

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What links Michelle Collins to June Brown, Jill Halfpenny and Brian Capron?
Spoiler alert: answers below

Questions

1 What did Peter Minuit buy in 1626 for around 60 guilders?
2 Which film was based on Ted Lewis's novel Jack's Return Home?
3 The last heir to which empire died in July aged 98?
4 Which conductor has won a record 31 Grammy awards?
5 Who was nicknamed Muttnik in 1957?
6 "No hugging, no learning" was the motto of which comedy series?
7 Who published his uncertainty principle in 1927?
8 The earliest surviving English private correspondence is by which Norfolk family?
What links:
9 Duodenum; jejunum; ileum?
10 Michelle Collins (in 2011); Brian Capron; June Brown; Jill Halfpenny?
11 Pirates; Penguins; Steelers?
12 Canada; US; Hong Kong; Fiji; Australia; New Zealand; East Caribbean; Liberia?
13 Theravada; Mahayana; Vajrayana?
14 Beatles 1967 opus; Stanley in The Pirates Of Penzance; 1933 film score by Prokofiev?
15 Ely; Thanet; Purbeck; Portland; Dogs?

Answers

1 Manhattan island.
2 Get Carter (and its remakes).
3 Austro-Hungarian (Otto von Habsburg).
4 Sir Georg Solti.
5 Laika (Soviet space dog).
6 Seinfeld.
7 Werner Heisenberg.
8 The Pastons.
9 Segments of the small intestine.
10 Actors who've appeared in both Coronation Street and Eastenders.
11 Pittsburgh sports teams: baseball; ice hockey; American football.
12 Dollar currencies.
13 Movement or schools of Buddhism.
14 Musical army ranks: Sgt Pepper; (the very model of a modern) major-general; Lieutenant Kijé.
15 UK "isles" that are not really islands.

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Mary Hamilton 13 Aug, 2011

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