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What links Guns N’ Roses, Taylor Swift and Kate Bush? The Saturday quiz

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What links Guns N’ Roses, Taylor Swift and Kate Bush? The Saturday quiz — Lifestyle | The Guardian
Source: Lifestyle | The Guardian

The Saturday quiz asked 15 questions, including: What is Ikea’s all-time bestselling item of furniture; which country had a mosque on its national flag until 2021; which sisters shared one eye and one tooth between them; and which fortified wine is an ingredient of tiramisu.

Answers to questions 1–8 were: Billy bookcase; Afghanistan; Negro Leagues; Graeae (Greek myth); Brazil nuts; Angela Merkel; Cassowary; Marsala.

Links and themed answers for questions 9–15 were: Words that have a different meaning and pronunciation when capitalised; Green party MPs; Suggested burial/resting places of King Arthur; Played the “bride” of Frankenstein; Celebrated rock formations that collapsed; Scale of UFO sightings/encounters (devised by J Allen Hynek); Songs with months in the title: January; August; September; November Rain; December Will Be Magic Again.

Afghanistan

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