What links a schnoodle and a puggle? The Weekend quiz
The questions
1 What wound was inflicted by Saint Longinus?
2 Which drummer sketches every hotel room he stays in?
3 Where was the Golden Pavilion Temple burned down by a monk in 1950?
4 Who founded the DVF fashion line?
5 What US body claims to be “diligent protectors of the Second Amendment”?
6 Paris-Bordeaux-Paris in 1895 was the first of what type of contest?
7 Which pub was at 1 Diagon Alley?
8 Which lovers communicated through a crack in the wall?
What links:
9 Reveries, Passions; A Ball; Scene In The Fields; March To The Scaffold; Dream Of A Witches’ Sabbath?
10 Puggle; maltipoo; dorgi; schnoodle?
11 Gatún locks; Pedro Miguel locks; Miraflores locks?
12 First person singular; Jupiter moon; electrically charged atom; in the Inner Hebrides?
13 Anti; Diamonds; Loud; Last Girl on Earth; Good Girl Gone Bad?
14 Roseau; Fort-de-France; Castries; Kingstown; St George’s?
15 Lauretta; Elissa; Emilia; Panfilo; Filostrato (and five others)?
Which drummer sketches every hotel room he stays in?plywood snare drum isolated on white backgroundPhotograph: Getty Images/iStockphoto
The answers
1 Lance that pierced the crucified Jesus.
2 Charlie Watts (Rolling Stones).
3 Kyoto, Japan.
4 Diane von Fürstenberg.
5 National Rifle Association.
6 Car race.
7 Leaky Cauldron (Harry Potter books).
8 Pyramus and Thisbe.
9 Movements of Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique.
10 Dog cross-breeds.
11 Locks on the Panama Canal.
12 Add a letter: I; Io; ion; Iona.
13 Rihanna world tours.
14 Capitals of the Windward Islands: Dominica; Martinique; Saint Lucia; Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; Grenada.
15 Narrators in Boccaccio’s Decameron.
