From John Adams and Thomas Jefferson to The History Boys, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz
1 The Miser’s Warning was the subtitle of an 1844 adaptation of what story?
2 What term for a trendsetter comes from a castrated ram’s neckwear?
3 What is the Beatles’ most streamed song?
4 Caganers are scatological Christmas figurines from which European region?
5 Who earned a maximum of £20 a week until 1961?
6 What is Britain’s most famous cryptid?
7 What February feast marked the end of Christmas in medieval England?
8 Which despot set up a Save Britain Fund in the 1970s?
What links:
9 John Adams; Thomas Jefferson; Aaron Burr; George Clinton?
10 Blow-Up; Funny Face; Rear Window; Salvador; The Bridges of Madison County?
11 Matisse’s Le Bateau; Mondrian’s New York City I; O’Keeffe’s Oriental Poppies?
12 Emily Anderson; William DuVall; Brian Johnson; Adam Lambert?
13 Deer; fox; kite; panda; squirrel; start; wolf?
14 A Woman of Substance; Billy Liar; Bridget Jones’s Diary; The History Boys; V?
15 Ellipse, Washington DC; Place Kléber, Strasbourg; Trafalgar Square, London?