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The Saturday quiz

Simon O'Hagan
Saturday 22 October 2011 08:48 BST
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1. Historically speaking, who was the occupant of a dower house?

2. In a career lasting 21 years, Pele (below) only ever played for two football clubs. Which were they?

3. Two in London, one in Belfast and one in Salford. Theatres all called what?

4. By far the most popular of the 27-volume Penguin Modern Poets series that was published in the 1960s and 1970s, Volume 10, featured work by Brian Patten, Roger McGough, and Adrian Henri. What was this volume called?

5. The names of seven of London's 33 boroughs begin with the same letter. Which one?

6. Cliff Richard; Henrik Ibsen; Jacqueline Susann. What's the connection?

7. The so-called Three Sisters – enshrined on some dollar coins – are the three main agricultural crops of various Native American groups. What crops are they?

8. Monica Jones was the lover of which leading 20th-century poet?

9. For years after his death in 1861, the linen and towels in his bedroom continued to be changed daily. Who?

10. Who got into trouble in the Altitude Bar in Queenstown?

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