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The Saturday Quiz: Try our weekly brain teaser

Chris Maume
Wednesday 09 September 2015 14:27 BST
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1

Which jazz composer and band-leader, who died in 1993 at the age of 79, claimed to come from Saturn?

2

David Cameron's Behavioural Insights Team is better known as what?

3

Who's the only man to be twice elected president of the US, and twice vice-president?

4

Which fruit links Roald Dahl and The Stranglers?

5

The Cheka (1917-1922), was a forerunner of which organisation which was dissolved in 1991?

6

Which 2009 Oscar-winning blockbuster took its name from a Hindu word denoting the descent of a deity to Earth?

7

Limbo, lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud and treachery: the nine what, according to a 14th-century epic poem?

8

Tom Wolfe coined the phrase "radical chic" in 1970 writing about a fundraiser held by Leonard Bernstein for which group?

9

Which two words link the Pleiades star cluster, chalk cliffs in Sussex and a London road that runs from Holloway to Tottenham?

10

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