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The Saturday Quiz: Weekly brain teaser

Chris Maume
Saturday 19 March 2016 01:33 GMT
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Which football ground was the home of Everton FC from 1884 until a rent dispute in 1891?
Which football ground was the home of Everton FC from 1884 until a rent dispute in 1891? (Getty Images)

1. Whose autobiography, completed by his wife following his death in 2004, was entitled 'Margrave of the Marshes'?

2. What was the European Recovery Programme, which began operating in 1948, better known as?

3. Which company, which collapsed in 2002, was described by the Financial Times as 'a virtual company with virtual profits'?

4. Glorious, Orange, Rose, Velvet. What's the link?

5. Which English cricket fixture began in 1807 and continued on a regular basis until 1962?

6. Pluviometry is the measurement of what?

7. Where did a 19-year-old West German, Matthias Rust, land his Cessna aeroplane in 1987?

8. 'Why Men Fight' (1916), 'Why I Am Not a Christian' (1927), 'The Conquest of Happiness' (1930), 'In Praise of Idleness' (1935): all works by which philosopher?

9. Dalton Trumbo, Ring Lardner, Jr, Edward Dmytryk and seven others: what were they known as?

10. Which football ground was the home of Everton FC from 1884 until a rent dispute in 1891?

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