Guardian Saturday quiz links Billie Eilish and George Gershwin

The Guardian's Saturday quiz posed 15 questions that linked figures such as Billie Eilish and George Gershwin, asking readers to find common themes across a range of topics.

Questions included which identically named comic strips debuted in the US and UK in March 1951, which pharaoh was known as the Great Ancestor, and which Spanish-language singer is the world’s most-streamed artist. The answers given were Dennis the Menace, Ramses II and Bad Bunny respectively.

Other answers published in the quiz included leopard as the big cat with the widest geographical distribution; Jenny Pitman as the first woman to train a Grand National winner; helium as the element with the lowest boiling point; Andy Warhol as the artist with museums in Pittsburgh and Slovakia; and Japan as the country with more than 9 million abandoned homes.

The quiz further linked the named musicians by songwriting partnerships with their brothers; identified rivers flowing into the Solway Firth; recognised calypso in several clues; noted football teams stripped of league titles or promotions; named businesses founded by Quakers; matched UK political party symbols to parties; and gave "born in Leeds" as the connection for the final set of names.

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Culture, Billie Eilish, George Gershwin, Andy Warhol, Bad Bunny, Japan