The Saturday quiz answers
1. Canary Wharf.
2. King Cnut, on failing to turn back the tide.
3. 50: 1 squared plus 7 squared, and 5 squared plus 5 squared.
4. Tennyson's "The Lady of Shalott".
5. Dada.
6. Defender Ray Wilson; Jack Charlton (31 years and two months) was the second oldest.
7. As a designer of numerous West End theatres, including Wyndham's and the Aldwych.
8. Serge Gainsbourg.
9. The Queen Mother, one-time Empress of India.
10. Rome, in the second century BC.
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