The Saturday Quiz: Try our weekly brain teaser

 

Will Dean
Saturday 14 December 2013 01:00 GMT
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1. Which is the closest capital city to Beijing?

2. Which British Prime Minister lived to the oldest age (92 and 364 days)?

3. LVMH is one of the world’s biggest luxury goods’ conglomerates. What do the letters in its name stand for?

4. ‘Skin’, ‘Heat’, ‘Lovely Days’, ‘Clues’, ‘Pitter Patter’ and ‘Who Done It’ were the six episodes of which lauded 1986 TV drama?

5. A new book, ‘The Everything Store’ by Bloomberg Businessweek journalist Brad Stone, charts the rise of which company?

6. The American crime writer James Patterson had eight of the top 20 most what in Britain in 2012?

7. A giant squid nicknamed ‘Archie’, resides in which London building?

8. What links Michael Frayn, Joan Didion and Leonard Cohen?

9. The ‘Hitmaker’, a white Fender Stratocaster supposedly responsible for £1bn-worth of hit songs, belongs to which musician/producer?

10. “Who’s there?” is the first line of what?

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