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    What links the Coldstream Guards band and the Style Council? The Saturday quiz

    By Thomas Eaton,

    3 hours ago

    The questions

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    Paul Weller playing with the Style Council. Photograph: Phil Dent/Redferns

    1 Lana Peters, who died in Wisconsin in 2011, was whose daughter?
    2 What is the world’s northernmost national capital city?
    3 In France, what means of transport is a Montgolfière?
    4 Which king of England was born in Caernarfon?
    5 What unique sporting double did Golden Miller achieve in 1934?
    6 Which medical remedy was derived from cinchona bark?
    7 What US exchange was the world’s first electronic stock market?
    8 What was Lina, owned by Albert Einstein?
    What links:
    9
    Guérin; Rimet; Rous; Havelange; Blatter?
    10 Coldstream Guards band; Status Quo; the Style Council; the Boomtown Rats?
    11 Angoroj (1964); Incubus (1966); Gerda Malaperis! (2006); La Patro (2007)?
    12 Kent; New Jersey, US; Victoria, Australia?
    13 Baruch; Esdras; Judith; Susanna; Tobit?
    14 A in 1903; B and C in 1904; F in 1905; T in 1908?
    15 South-west Norfolk; Richmond; Holborn and St Pancras?

    The answers

    1 Joseph Stalin (and Nadezhda Alliluyeva).
    2 Reykjavik (Iceland).
    3 Hot air balloon.
    4 Edward II.
    5 Cheltenham Gold Cup and Grand National.
    6 Quinine.
    7 Nasdaq.
    8 Violin.
    9 Presidents of Fifa.
    10 First acts of Live Aid in 1985.
    11 Feature films in Esperanto.
    12 Garden nicknames: garden of England; garden state.
    13 Books of the Apocrypha (King James’s Bible).
    14 Launch of Ford car models.
    15 Constituencies of recent PMs: Truss; Sunak; Starmer.

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