The Saturday quiz

Simon O'Hagan
Saturday 20 August 2011 00:00 BST
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1. They became established in Nottingham in 1830. As of 2008, 330,000 people had one, and there were 100,000 people on the waiting list. What?

2. Which tennis player takes two bottles of water on to the court with him, has a sip from each, then lines them up with the labels facing the same way?

3. In 1694 Sir John Houblon became the first person to take up which prominent position?

4. Which newly acclaimed fictional crime-fighter's last known address is 'unknown'?

5. A haircut; a brewery; a string quartet; a Dad's Army character. What's the connection?

6. Neap and spring are both types of what?

7. What prediction first appeared in a catalogue for an art exhibition in Stockholm in 1968?

8. Which 1773 protest action was directed against both the British government and the East India Company?

9. Which of Jacqueline Bouvier's marriages lasted longer – to John F Kennedy, or to Aristotle Onassis?

10. Of 563 players registered for the new Premier League season, which country outside Britain and Ireland has the highest representation?

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