Saturday quiz: Wendy’s and Mercedes‑Benz named after founders’ daughters

The Guardian’s Saturday quiz revealed that Mercedes‑Benz cars and Wendy’s burgers share a link: both are brands or products named after the founder’s daughter.

The quiz consisted of 15 questions with answers including: Lydia of Thyatira is claimed to be the first person in Europe to convert to Christianity; mountain lions eat penguins in Argentina; single pot still is a style of Irish whiskey; the line “Violet, you’re turning violet” appears in Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; Fanny Mendelssohn’s Easter Sonata was originally attributed to her brother; the two small UK cities with the same name are Bangor in Wales and Northern Ireland; pitmatic was spoken by miners in north‑east England; and the New York Cosmos won five NASL titles.

Other answers linked title characters of Thomas Hardy novels, songs by acts with “New” in their names, Fibonacci numbers, titles held by Napoleon Bonaparte, athletics individual world records that still stand from the 1980s, and the birthplaces of recent popes. These were published as the answers to The Guardian’s Saturday quiz. Photograph credit in the feature: tomazl/Getty Images.

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