Saturday quiz

Simon O'Hagan brings you his weekly brainteaser

1. Who are these six women and what’s the connection?

2. Which major 20th-century British author — winner of the Booker Prize in 1986 — wrote a how-to guide called The King’s English?

3. Slope Point — less than 3,000 miles from the South Pole — is the southernmost point of which country?

4. The so-called egg-and-tomato tie is worn by members of which venerable, 1787-founded sporting club?

5. Where would you find a proscenium arch?

6. John Steinbeck, Laurence Durrell, Jeanette Winterson, Woody Allen. What’s the connection?

7. In July 1948 Aneurin Bevan launched the NHS at a hospital in which city?

8. Beirut, Monaco, Geneva and Cambria are all names of what?

9. What were Radios 2, 3 and 4 called before they were re-named 50 years ago?

10. Which annual music festival, first held in 1965, takes place in Cherry Hinton Park, on the fringes of the city that bears the festival’s name?

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1. Jane Austen heroines: 1 Queen Elizabeth I/Elizabeth Bennet (Pride and Prejudice); 2 Emma Thompson/Emma Woodhouse (Emma); 3 Catherine Tate/Catherine Morland (Northanger Abbey); 4 Marianne Faithful/Marianne Dashwood (Sense and Sensibility); 5 Anne Hathaway/Anne Elliott (Persuasion); 6 Fanny Cradock/Fanny Price (Mansfield Park)

2. Kingsley Amis

3. New Zealand

4. MCC (Marylebone Cricket Club)

5. In a theatre — it’s the arch framing the opening between the stage and the auditorium

6. Fruit: The Grapes of Wrath, Bitter Lemons, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Bananas

7. Manchester (it was at Park Hospital, today known as Trafford General Hospital)

8. Typefaces

9. The Light Programme; the Third Programme; the Home Service

10. Cambridge Folk Festival

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