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What links Buckeyes, Crimson Tide and Wolverines? The Saturday quiz

Thomas Eaton — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 06:00:27 GMT

From Alison, Harry Bailey and Madame Eglantine to the slipper limpet and trumpet tube worm, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz

1 Which islands lie at the geographic centre of the western hemisphere?
2 Esme Pepper is which writer’s 135th book?
3 What phenomenon did Einstein dismiss as “spooky action at a distance”?
4 Which hormone is chiefly produced by the pineal gland?
5 A Beatles museum is planned on which London street?
6 Which fashion brand made uniforms for the Wehrmacht and Nazi party?
7 The Manchester solicitor Nick Freeman styles himself as what?
8 Dogana is the largest settlement in which European microstate?
What links:
9 Carpet sea squirt; Pacific oyster; slipper limpet; trumpet tube worm?
10 Convoy; Duel; Maximum Overdrive; Smokey and the Bandit; The Wages of Fear?
11 Balti; Bermuda; Coral; Golden; Rhubarb?
12 Alison; Harry Bailey; Madame Eglantine; Hubert; Oswald; Robin?
13 Buckeyes; Crimson Tide; Fighting Irish; Longhorns; Wolverines?
14 River Tay, Scotland; Tay River, Ontario; Swan River, Western Australia?
15 Carnival; MSC; Norwegian; Princess; Royal Caribbean?

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