What links Finding Nemo and Little Shop of Horrors? The Saturday quiz
From Carthage airport and Dante’s Purgatory to Maglia Rosa, Maillot Jaune and La Roja, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz
The questions
1 Whose The Dream (The Bed) is the most expensive painting by a woman?
2 Which capital city is served by Carthage airport?
3 Which famous feuding families appear in Canto VI of Dante’s Purgatory?
4 Lock & Co is the world’s oldest shop selling what?
5 Which composer was bandmaster at the Worcester County and City Lunatic Asylum?
6 At what point in a planet’s orbit is it closest to the sun?
7 Liverpool FC were 2023 league champions in which country?
8 What insulting messages were sent by Victorians on 14 February?
What links:
9 Finding Nemo; Little Shop of Horrors; Marathon Man; The Hangover?
10 Andrea Jaeger; Philip Mulryne; David Sheppard; Taribo West?
11 Billington and Mayman; Block and Quayle; Clemens and August?
12 Alloy; carbon; stainless; tool?
13 Teme; Vyrnwy; Warwickshire Avon; Worcestershire Stour?
14 Maglia Rosa; Maillot Jaune; La Roja?
15 Plutarch; Giorgio Vasari; John Aubrey; Leslie Stephen; Lytton Strachey?
The answers
1 Frida Kahlo ($54.7m at auction in 2025)
2 Tunis.
3 Montecchi and Cappelletti (ie Montague and Capulet).
4 Hats.
5 Edward Elgar.
6 Perihelion.
7 Uruguay.
8 Vinegar Valentines.
9 Films featuring dentists.
10 Sportspeople who went into a religious life: tennis to Dominican nun; football to Catholic priest; cricket to Anglican bishop; football to pastor.
11 Surnames/first names in retailers’ names: B&M; B&Q; C&A.
12 Categories of steel.
13 Tributaries of the River Severn.
14 Leaders’ jerseys of major cycling tours: Giro d’Italia; Tour de France; Vuelta a España.
15 Wrote (or edited) works of collective biography: Parallel Lives; Lives of the Artists; Brief Lives; Dictionary of National Biography; Eminent Victorians.