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Chris Maume

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Chris Maume is radio columnist for the Independent on Sunday and obituaries editor of the Independent.

Puzzles

Christmas quiz 2023: Round two – Put a name to these faces

Puzzles

Christmas quiz 2023: Round one – An eye for news

Quizzes

Your Christmas quiz: The year in sports

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Your Christmas quiz 2022: Put a name to these faces

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Your Christmas quiz 2022: An eye for news

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Your Christmas quiz: Who said that?

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Christmas quiz round two: Big names we lost in 2022

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Your Christmas quiz: The news that made 2022

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Christmas quiz round five: Can you spot the link?

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Christmas quiz round six: Put a name to these faces

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Christmas quiz questions: Big names we lost in 2021

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Christmas quiz questions: The news in 2021

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Christmas quiz questions: Film, TV, music and more

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Christmas quiz questions: Film, TV, music and more

Puzzles

Christmas quiz questions: Who said that?

Quizzes

Christmas quiz round five: Can you spot the link?

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Christmas quiz round four: Test your general knowledge

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Christmas quiz round one: Can you remember what happened this year?

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Christmas quiz round one: Can you remember what happened this year?

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Christmas quiz round six: Put a name to these faces

Lucha Libre arrives in north London this weekend to bring a flavour of Mexican wrestling to the capital
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London to be lit up by Lucha Libre, the heart of Mexican culture

Extras

Quiz of the year 2018: Round five

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Quiz of the year 2018: Round six

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Quiz of the year 2018: Round four

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Quiz of the year 2018: Round three

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Quiz of the year 2018: Round two

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Quiz of the year 2018: Round one

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Quiz of the year 2018: Round three

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Quiz of the year 2018: Round two

Extras

Quiz of the year 2018: Round one

Quizzes

Quiz of the Year 2017: Round 4

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Quiz of the Year 2017: Round 4

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Quiz of the Year 2017: Round 3

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Quiz of the Year 2017: Round 6

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Quiz of the Year 2017: Round 5

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Quiz of the Year 2017: Round 2

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Quiz of the Year 2017: Round 2

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Quiz of the Year 2017: Round 1

Downes shrugged off beating a 41-year-old Sugar Ray Robinson – ‘I didn’t beat Sugar Ray, I beat his ghost’, he said
Obituaries

Terry Downes: boxer who shrugged off beat Sugar Ray Robinson

Obituaries

Brendan Duddy obituary: The secret peacekeeper

Kessler: ‘I refuse to sacrifice my Communist beliefs to the fashion of the day’
Obituaries

Heinz Kessler, obituary: East Germany's last defence minister

In Chicago’s Grant Park, 106 haunting headless statues created by the sculptor stand tall
Obituaries

Obituary: Magdalena Abakanowicz

Erin Moran reportedly spent her final years homeless
Obituaries

Erin Moran, obituary: the child star best known for Happy Days

The musician said he had a ‘telepathic’ relationship with Dylan when it came to making music
Obituaries

Bruce Langhorne: The ‘Tambourine Man’ who inspired Bob Dylan

Picture:
Voices

Why 2016 won’t be considered unusual for celebrity deaths – eventually

Tony Cozier
Cricket

Tony Cozier tribute: Farewell to the honeyed voice of cricket

Uncompleted autobiography: John Peel in 1972
Quizzes

The Saturday Quiz answers

Which football ground was the home of Everton FC from 1884 until a rent dispute in 1891?
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The Saturday Quiz: Weekly brain teaser

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The Saturday Quiz: Weekly brain teaser

Which football ground was the home of Everton FC from 1884 until a rent dispute in 1891?
Maxwell Davies: he recalled being branded a 'traitor' for allowing tonality into his music
Obituaries

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies: Composer and conductor

Pop music's greatest grump: Mark E Smith
Features

Many Happy Returns: The Fall's Mark E Smith

Nicolas Giacobone, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Alexander Dinelaris and Armando Bo pose with their Oscars for Best Original Screenplay for Birdman
Quizzes

The Saturday Quiz answers

Celebrities have been using awards ceremonies to air their views on the current US administration
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The Saturday Quiz: Weekly brain teaser

Celebrities have been using awards ceremonies to air their views on the current US administration
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The Saturday Quiz: Weekly brain teaser

Perrone with Kylie Minogue: he was as immersed in music as the artists themselves
Obituaries

Pierre Perrone: Writer who was respected by the stars he interviewed

Eco in 2010: 'Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry,' he said
Obituaries

Umberto Eco: Author and semiotician who shot to global fame

Quizzes

The Saturday Quiz answers

In 2009, Joan Bakewell was asked by whose widow to stay away from his memorial service?
Quizzes

The Saturday Quiz: Weekly brain teaser

Forster in 1964: she had recently left her teaching job to write full-time
Obituaries

Margaret Forster: Prolific and award-winning author

Christopher Wallace, shot to death in his car in 1997, was better known as Notorious BIG, or Biggie Smalls
Quizzes

The Saturday Quiz answers

Paul Newman in Sometimes A Great Notion in 1971
Quizzes

The Saturday Quiz: Weekly brain teaser

‘My dad wanted me to be a plumber’s mate,’ he said. ‘I wanted to be a criminal’
Obituaries

Gordon Goody: Criminal who masterminded the Great Train Robbery

Reviews

Bowie on Bowie: Interviews and Encounters: Book review

Louis Smith taking part in Strictly Come Dancing in 2012
Quizzes

The Saturday Quiz answers

Darren Gough, Mark Ramprakash, Louis Smith (pictured): what's the link?
Quizzes

The Saturday Quiz: Weekly brain teaser

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The Saturday Quiz: Weekly brain teaser

Darren Gough, Mark Ramprakash, Louis Smith (pictured): what's the link?
Pedal power: David Litvinoff in Knightsbridge
Reviews

Jumpin' Jack Flash: David Litvinoff and the Rock 'n' Roll Underworld

What links Damon Albarn (pictured), Phil Collins and Pharrell?
Quizzes

The Saturday Quiz: Weekly brain teaser

Ezra was unable to do anything about the long-term issue of declining productivity in the coalfields
Obituaries

Lord Ezra: Chairman of National Coal Board

Kevin Spacey as Francis Underwood in ‘House of Cards’ (AP
Quizzes

The Saturday Quiz: Weekly brain teaser

Kevin Spacey as Francis Underwood in ‘House of Cards’ (AP
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The Saturday Quiz: Weekly brain teaser

Sales of James Bond books soared in the US in the early 1960s when 'From Russia With Love' was included in whose list of top 10 favourite books?
Quizzes

The Saturday Quiz: Weekly brain teaser

Ronnie O’Sullivan aged 17, the year he became UK champion for the first time
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Ronnie O'Sullivan is one of snooker’s most charismatic operators

Musician Stevie Wonder, a.k.a. Steveland Judkins
Quizzes

The Saturday Quiz answers

Sales of James Bond books soared in the US in the early 1960s when 'From Russia With Love' was included in whose list of top 10 favourite books?
Quizzes

News quiz of the week

Richard Moore explores why Jamaica produces so many world-class sprinters
Features

Christmas 2015: The best 9 books in sport

Katy Perry was recently named by Forbes as the top-earning woman in pop between June 2014 and June 2015, with earnings of $135m
Quizzes

The Saturday Quiz answers

Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale (pictured), Thomas Arnold and General Gordon were the subjects of which 1918 book?
Quizzes

The Saturday Quiz: Weekly brain teaser

Carlos in 1972 at a keyboard and synthesiser she built
Features

Wendy Carlos's mind houses a glorious fusion of art and science

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The Saturday Quiz answers

Pope Paul VI in 1965: What good news did he have for Jewish people that year?
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The Saturday Quiz: Weekly brain teaser

Davies as Mr Price in ‘Please Sir!’: the smile was untypical of the character
People

Richard Davies: Character actor best known as Mr Price in ‘Please Sir!

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The Saturday Quiz answers

Riverside Museum, Glasgow; Guangzhou Opera House; BMW Central Building, Leipzig; London Aquatic Centre (pictured). What’s the link?
Quizzes

The Saturday Quiz: Weekly brain teaser

Zappa: she recently announced that the bottom of Frank's archive of unreleased recordings has finally been reached
Obituaries

Gail Zappa: Frank Zappa's wife, muse and manager

David Bowie's Five Years 1969-1973 comes in CD, vinyl and digital format
Quizzes

Try our weekly Saturday quiz brainteaser

Reborn in a book: Patti Smith
Reviews

M Train by Patti Smith, book review: A vivid portrait of a visionary

Zappa: she recently announced that the bottom of Frank's archive of unreleased recordings has finally been reached
Obituaries

Gail Zappa: Frank Zappa's wife, muse and manager

David Bowie's Five Years 1969-1973 comes in CD, vinyl and digital format
Quizzes

Try our weekly Saturday quiz brainteaser

Reborn in a book: Patti Smith
Reviews

M Train by Patti Smith, book review: A vivid portrait of a visionary

Frank Tyson
Obituaries

Frank Tyson obituary: One of the fastest bowlers in cricket history

Picture dated of the 50's showing American writer Ernest Hemingway at a bullfight in Pamplona, Spain.
Puzzles and Games

Try our weekly brain teaser

Puzzles and Games

The Saturday Quiz answers

Giant wave of energy: David Frost, left, with Enoch Powell
Books

Frost: That Was The Life That Was by Neil Hegarty, book review

Beauvoir: he wanted houngans like himself to be given a role in Haiti’s government
People

Max Beauvoir obit: Biochemist who become a voodoo priest

Reviews

Das Reboot: How German Football Reinvented Itself and Conquered the

Darling: 'I got sick of working at about 13,' she recalled
News

Jean Darling, child movie star: Obituary

Puzzles and Games

The Saturday Quiz: Try our weekly brain teaser

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