What links Danger Mouse and Sherlock Holmes? The Saturday quiz | Life and style
The questions
1 Which sport has 14 players on the field and lasts 14 minutes?
2 What was calculated to 105 trillion digits this year?
3 Which Oxford college is named after Henry VII’s mother?
4 Which country is a continent?
5 Which sisters represent Lewisham and Leeds in the House of Commons?
6 Vince Guaraldi played the jazz piano score for which American cartoon?
7 The oldest of its kind in the UK, what is Blackgang Chine?
8 What name was given to samurai without masters?
What links:
9 Archie; excite; HotBot; Infoseek; licorice; Magellan?
10 Auregnais; Dgèrnésiais; Jèrriais; Serkiais?
11 East is east; east of Suez; the law of the jungle; more deadly than the male?
12 Beethoven; Colin of Accounts; The Littlest Tramp; Marmaduke; Marley and me?
13 Armada; Clopton; Darnley; Ditchley; Pelican; Plimpton sieve?
14 Dangerous mouse; Sexton Blake; Sherlock Holmes?
15 Egypt (2); Greece (2); Iraq (1); Turkey (2)?
The answers
1 Rugby 7.
2 Pi.
3 Lady Margaret Hall.
4 Australia.
5 Eli and Rachel Reeves.
6 Peanuts.
7 Amusement park (1843, Isle of Wight).
8 Ronin.
9 Early Internet Search Engines.
10 Norman French dialects of the Channel Islands: Alderney; Guernsey; Jersey; Sark.
11 Terms introduced or popularized by Rudyard Kipling.
12 Main dog characters in TV and movies.
13 Names of portraits of Elizabeth I.
14 Baker Street Crime Fighters.
15 Modern locations of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: The Great Pyramid of Giza and the Lighthouse of Alexandria; Statue of Zeus at Olympia and Colossus of Rhodes; Hanging Gardens of Babylon; The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus and the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus.