The Saturday Quiz
Saturday 31 October 2009
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1. What spooky coinage was the work of the philosopher Gilbert Ryle in his 1949 book The Concept of Mind?
2. In Robert Harris's The Ghost, what is the name of the character widely regarded as modelled on Tony Blair?
3. The Witches of Eastwick is set in a fictional town in which US state?
4. Complete this quartet: Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, Bill Ward, and ... who?
5. Shallow Grave was whose directorial debut?
6. In the US, pumpkins carved for decorative Halloween purposes are known as what?
7. Death and the Maiden was the work of which painter who died on 31 October 1918?
8. Which cathedral has the largest crypt in Europe?
9. What is the undertakers' motto?
10. Which rock star, born in 1945 and with six UK No 1 hits to his name, once worked as a gravedigger in Highgate Cemetery?
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- 2 Spotify: 1 million plays, £108 return
- 3 Chemotherapy is 'safe during pregnancy'
- 4 Rhodri Marsden: What we like and what we don't like are often closer than you'd think
- 5 BBC to issue global apology for documentaries that broke rules
- 6 Lightning kills an entire football team
- 7 I was born to be a killer. Every night I see the Devil in my dreams
- 8 Henry does it his way, ending on a high note
- 9 Modern lovers: The 'sexual body warriors' and pioneers transforming 21st-century relationships
- 10 Redknapp hints at same old faces for England
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