The Saturday quiz

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The Saturday quiz

The questions

1 What was the primary spacecraft to fly past Mars?
2 Which marsupials reside wild within the UK?
3 Which 1999 movie pioneered the “bullet time” impact?
4 What’s the distinction between Bergamo’s soccer crew and Georgia’s state capital?
5 Which pharmaceutical large is Britain’s first £200bn firm?
6 Which main Nazi wrote the memoir Contained in the Third Reich?
7 What are the bubbles in bubble tea created from?
8 Anxiousness, Ennui and Envy are characters during which movie?
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Brideshead Revisited; Gaudy Night time; Final Seen Carrying; Northern Lights?
10 Basket toss; cradle catch; cupie; herkie; thigh stand?
11 The Chordettes; Tradition Beat; ELO; the Killers; Shabba Ranks; Alexandra Stan?
12 Milan-Cortina d’Ampezzo; Los Angeles; French Alps; Brisbane?
13 Henrietta Maria; Catherine of Braganza; Camilla Parker Bowles?
14 Catalina; Large Sur; Monterey; Ventura; Sonoma?
15 Chad and Romania; Monaco and Indonesia; New Zealand and Australia?

The Killers acting on the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury pageant in 2019. {Photograph}: Richard Isaac/REX/Shutterstock

The solutions

1 Pioneer 10.
2 Wallabies.
3 The Matrix.
4 Letter A (Atalanta and Atlanta).
5 AstraZeneca.
6 Albert Speer.
7 Tapioca.
8 Inside Out 2.
9 Novels set in Oxford: Evelyn Waugh; Dorothy L Sayers; Colin Dexter; Philip Pullman.
10 Cheerleading phrases.
11 Hits with Mr … songs: Sandman; Useless; Blue Sky; Brightside; Loverman; Saxobeat.
12 Forthcoming Olympic/Paralympic venues.
13 Queens consort of King Charles I, II and III.
14 Latest Mac working programs.
15 Virtually an identical flags.


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