The Saturday Quiz: Try our weekly brain teaser

 

John Clarke
Saturday 29 November 2014 01:00 GMT
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1. Joey Bishop was a member of which group of entertainers often associated with Las Vegas?

2. What legal term is used to describe the freehold of a property built, for instance, over a shared passageway?

3. In 1785, Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard became the first person to cross the English Channel using what form of transport?

4. "After I am dead, the boy will ruin himself in 12 months." A king was talking about which future monarch?

5. A statue of the 19th-century English peer Lord Brougham and Vaux stands in the French Riviera resort he helped to popularise. Name it.

6. Abalone is a type of what?

7. Which US folk singer had the words 'This machine kills fascists' placed on his guitar in 1941?

8. Which youngest- ever Man Booker prizewinner triumphed with the longest-ever Man Booker prizewinning novel?

9. Which steam locomotive holds the world speed record for such engines?

10. Balls of deep-fried dough that are said to have been fed to pets to keep them quiet, gave their name to what brand of footwear?

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