The Saturday Quiz: Try our weekly brain teaser
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?
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