The Weekend quiz
Questions 1 What did George Holliday videotape on 3 March 1991 in LA? 2 Which charity was founded by Eglantyne Jebb and Dorothy Buxton? 3 The Laban system analyses what? 4 The Watsons is an unfinished novel by which author? 5 Which barefoot preacher cried, "Woe to the bloody city of Lichfield"? 6 Which psychological condition was defined after a 1973 Swedish bank robbery? 7 What does a boucherie chevaline specialise in? 8 Which astronomical event is depicted on the Bayeux Tapestry? What links: 9 Larynx; flight data recorder; St Stephen's Day? 10 Rose Tavern brothel (3rd); Fleet prison (7th); Bedlam hospital (8th)? 11 Sochi in Russia; Pyeongchang in South Korea? 12 David Bowie; Rod Steiger; Telly Savalas (above); Michael Palin? 13 Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I; Ottoman admiral Hayreddin Pasha; German invasion of the USSR? 14 Secret and Rocky; Tufty; Ratatoskr; Nutkin? 15 Lake Manzala; Lake Timsah; Great Bitter Lake; Little Bitter Lake? Answers 1 Rodney King police beating. 2 Save the Children. 3 Human movement/dance. 4 Jane Austen. 5 George Fox (1650s). 6 Stockholm syndrome. 7 Horsemeat. 8 Appearance of Halley's Comet. 9 Boxes: voice box; black box; Boxing Day. 10 Scenes from William Hogarth's Rake's Progress. 11 Host cities of Winter Olympics: 2014; 2018. 12 All played Pontius Pilate on screen. 13 Barbarossa: byname; nickname in Europe; codename of 1941 attack. 14 Fictional squirrels: in cartoons; road safety campaign; in Norse myth; in B Potter story. 15 Connected by the Suez Canal.
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