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The Saturday Quiz: Try our weekly brain teaser

 

John Clarke
Friday 07 August 2015 18:47 BST
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1. The character Ron Swanson, played by Nick Offerman, is the director of a local government department which gives its name to what US sitcom?

2. In what decade did the French scientist Joseph Nicéphore Niépce take 'View from the Window at Le Gras', the world's oldest surviving photograph?

3. How many characters are allowed in a tweet?

4. Which performer who won an Academy Award for Best Actress in the 1970s had parents who had also both won Oscars?

5. What type of golf club was a brassie?

6. Aktiebolaget Gas Accumulator, a Swedish company that invented a system of storage for the gas used in lighthouses, later became famous for manufacturing what?

7. Which famous poet's last recorded words were, 'I've had 18 straight whiskies. I think that's the record'?

8. What particular accolade is attached to the American former astronaut Eugene Cernan?

9. In cockney rhyming slang, what is a 'syrup'?

10. Which city boasts more skyscrapers than any other?

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