From grasshopper pie and Scotch woodcock to Welsh rabbit, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz

1 Which film, according to Barry Norman, featured the “oldest bunch of teenagers in the world”?
2 What is burned at the culmination of the Up Helly Aa festival?
3 Spanish civil war heroine Dolores Ibárruri popularised which slogan?
4 Which marine predators have worn dead salmon “hats”?
5 The rivers Trent, Don, Calder and Aire are crossed by which motorway?
6 Which cathedral is the home of the Church of England’s Diocese in Europe?
7 What were famously designed by Humphrey Paget and Christopher Ironside?
8 Which US firm is the world’s biggest asset manager?
What links:
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Shirley Bassey; Lulu; Tina Turner?
10 Robert Aske; Francis Bigod; Robert Kett; Thomas Wyatt?
11 Grasshopper pie; Rocky Mountain oyster; Scotch woodcock; Welsh rabbit?
12 Dorney, Bucks; Hadleigh, Essex; Waltham Cross, Herts; Isle of Portland, Dorset?
13 N (3); B (3); R (5); Q (9)?
14 Bamboo; chrysanthemum; orchid; plum blossom?
15 James Bolam; Victoria Coren Mitchell; Gregor Fisher; Selena Gomez; David Jason?

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