What links My Fair Lady, Boy on a Dolphin and West Side Story?
The Saturday quiz posed fifteen questions. They included: “The UK’s video recorders were reset in 1997 in advance of what?” and “Which tree is described by the Woodland Trust as ‘ancient, morbid, toxic’?” The reset was for the launch of Channel 5. The tree is yew.
The biggest sports stadium in the US belongs to the University of Michigan. Henry and Edward are the title characters of Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (RL Stevenson). The Hollywood star who couldn’t abide wire hangers was Joan Crawford (according to her daughter).
In 1413 Richard II’s body was moved from King’s Langley Priory to Westminster Abbey. The 37-mile Snaefell Mountain Course stages the Isle of Man TT races (and Manx Grand Prix). The soft drink originally launched as Pickup’s Appetiser was Tizer. Cecily stained glass, a Meiping vase, Rodin’s Thinker, a Temple Pyx fragment and a Wagner garden carpet are artefacts in Glasgow’s Burrell Collection.
United Kingdom, Glasgow
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