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The Saturday quiz

Simon O'Hagan
Saturday 02 January 2010 01:00 GMT
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1. What takes its name from the No 32 berth of the West Wood Quay of the Import Dock on the River Thames?

2. Which king admitted defeat by hanging his crown on a crucifix, never to wear it again?

3.What is the smallest number that can be expressed in two different ways as the sum of two squares?

4. A 1995 poll to find the nation's favourite poem was topped by Rudyard Kipling's If, which received twice as many votes as the No 2 poem. What was it?

5. Which French word for a child's hobby horse was adopted as the name of an artistic movement of the early 20th century?

6. At 31 years and seven months, who was the oldest member of England's 1966 World Cup-winning team?

7. How did WGR Sprague leave his mark on London, with creations dating from the late 19th and early 20th centuries that have been sat in by millions?

8. Which French singer, who neither drove nor had a chauffeur, kept a 1928 Rolls-Royce which he said he used occasionally "as an ashtray"?

9. She died in 2002 and was the last European woman to have held the title of "Empress". Who was she?

10. Which is believed to be the first city in the world to have had a population of more than a million?

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