The David Bowie Centre is part of which museum? The Saturday quiz
From Alpine Rams and Rhein Fire to Giandujot and SuperCrema, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz
The questions
1 10,935 metres is the answer to which question, posed by an Irving Berlin song?
2 Which empire had its capital at Cusco?
3 Who released her bestselling Workout fitness video in 1982?
4 In which sport does Rhein Fire play the Alpine Rams?
5 Greater mouse-eared is the UK’s largest and rarest species of which mammal?
6 The David Bowie Centre is part of which museum?
7 Giandujot and SuperCrema are the predecessors of which spread?
8 Richard Moth was appointed to which religious post last year?
What links:
9 Cricket; crow; cuckoo; dik-dik; gecko; owl?
10 Richmond and Charleston (Tudor); Raleigh and Columbia (Stuart); Atlanta (Hanover)?
11 Chan; kun; sama; san; senpai; sensei; shi?
12 Ninoy Aquino assassination; Brink’s-Mat robbery; Entebbe raid; Rudolf Nureyev defection?
13 Tu Youyou, 2015; Alphonse Laveran, 1907; Ronald Ross, 1902?
14 Benjamin Franklin Z Grill; Inverted Jenny; Treskilling Yellow; Tyrian Plum?
15 Australian and US TV; Jackson 5; Martin Fry; Poirot case?
The answers
1 How Deep Is the Ocean (figure is Challenger Deep in the Pacific).
2 Inca.
3 Jane Fonda.
4 American football (American Football League Europe).
5 Bat.
6 V&A (East Storehouse).
7 Nutella.
8 Archbishop of Westminster.
9 Animals with onomatopoeic names.
10 Capital of US states and dynastic origin of state name: Virginia and West Virginia (Elizabeth I); North and South Carolina (Charles I); Georgia (George II).
11 Japanese honorifics.
12 Incidents that happened in or around airports: Manila; Heathrow; Uganda; Le Bourget.
13 Nobel prize winners for discoveries relating to malaria.
14 Rare and valuable postage stamps.
15 ABC: ABC broadcasters; 1970 hit; singer in band ABC; Agatha Christie’s The ABC Murders.