The Saturday Quiz: Weekly brain teaser

Darren Gough, Mark Ramprakash, Louis Smith (pictured): what's the link? (Getty Images)

1. Which Florentine queen of France was known as 'the Maggot from Italy's tomb'?

2. Darren Gough, Mark Ramprakash, Louis Smith: what's the link?

3. Which comic novel of 1932 takes place in the fictional village of Howling in Sussex?

4. From 1945-51 a British film studio ran an acting school for young actors known as the Company of Youth. How was it better known?

5. Whose recent work on his teeth was described by the man who carried it out as 'the Everest of dentistry'?

6. Which tennis player, who won 15 Wimbledon singles and doubles titles, was known as 'the Pavlova of tennis' for her graceful style?

7. On Christmas Eve 2015, a man called Marvin was driven from London Fields to Hoxton. What was the significance of his trip?

8. Which peninsula, the scene of an infamous Allied defeat, takes its name from the Greek for 'beautiful city'?

9. Euskara – spoken in the Basque region – and Korean are examples of what kind of language?

10. Which fictional school did Toby Young describe as 'a microcosm of exactly what old-fashioned Tories would like Britain to be'?

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