The Saturday Quiz: Try our weekly brain teaser
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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