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The Saturday quiz

Simon O'Hagan
Saturday 20 November 2010 01:00 GMT
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1. Whose headquarters are at 30 Millbank?

2. Rossini (right) turned it into an opera in 1816, Verdi in 1887. Which play?

3. Which feminist slogan was coined when Irina Dunn, then a student at Sydney University, scrawled it on two toilet doors in 1970?

4. Manchester City's ground is colloquially referred to as Eastlands. But what is its official name?

5. Whose notorious indolence as MP for Liskeard in the 1770s was the downside to his dedication to producing a magnum opus that Adam Smith said "put him at the head of Europe's literary tribe"?

6. The term "gridlock" was first applied in which city?

7. Which 19th-century prime minister had a hot drink named after him?

8. Dilma Rousseff was just voted the first woman president of where?

9. On 3 June, 1968 which leading American was shot (but not killed) by Valerie Solanas?

10. Which two leading nations – both members of the G20 – are in dispute over their rival claims to the Kuril Islands?

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