From the Yule Cat and Madame Berthe’s mouse lemur to Taylor Swift and John Everett Millais, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz
1 Where does the Yule Cat devour people who don’t have new clothes?
2 Who successfully answered the radio advert: “Astronauts wanted, no experience required”?
3 Which story popularised the eating of turkey at Christmas?
4 Who signed his letters to Queen Elizabeth I as “007”?
5 What is the most abundant metal in the Earth’s crust?
6 Which Olympic athletics record is still standing from 1968?
7 Madame Berthe’s mouse lemur is the smallest of which order of mammals?
8 Where do the Rockettes dance each Christmas?
What links:
9 Alps in Slovenia; dates after 45BC; month of Quintilis; 42% of English births?
10 Taylor Swift; Friedrich Heyser; John Everett Millais?
11 Killed Baldr in Norse myth; Harry Potter’s wand; annual commemoration of Parnell?
12 MLA; MP; MS; MSP?
13 Stan Laurel; Mick McCarthy; Paul Raymond; Martin Sixsmith; Tony Wilson?
14 M (3); V (6); E (8); M (13); J (43); S (80); U (160); N (240)?
15 Ballgames; carpet tiles; gold chains; David Bowie LPs; Trevor Francis tracksuits?
