What links Buckeyes, Crimson Tide and Wolverines? The Saturday quiz | Quiz and trivia games

The questions

1 Which islands lie at the geographic centre of the western hemisphere?

2 Esme Pepper is which writer’s 135th book?

3 What phenomenon did Einstein dismiss as “spooky action at a distance”?

4 Which hormone is chiefly produced by the pineal gland?

5 A Beatles museum is planned on which London street?

6 Which fashion brand made uniforms for the Wehrmacht and Nazi party?

7 The Manchester solicitor Nick Freeman styles himself as what?

8 Dogana is the largest settlement in which European microstate?

What links:

9 Carpet sea squirt; Pacific oyster; slipper limpet; trumpet tube worm?

10 Convoy; Duel; Maximum Overdrive; Smokey and the Bandit; The Wages of Fear?

11 Balti; Bermuda; Coral; Golden; Rhubarb?

12 Alison; Harry Bailey; Madame Eglantine; Hubert; Oswald; Robin?

13 Buckeyes; Crimson Tide; Fighting Irish; Longhorns; Wolverines?

14 River Tay, Scotland; Tay River, Ontario; Swan River, Western Australia?

15 Carnival; MSC; Norwegian; Princess; Royal Caribbean?

The answers

1 Galápagos Islands (where the equator meets the 90th meridian west).

2 Jacqueline Wilson.

3 Quantum entanglement.

4 Melatonin.

5 Savile Row.

6 Hugo Boss.

7 Mr Loophole.

8 San Marino.

9 Invasive marine species in UK waters.

10 Films prominently featuring lorries.

11 Various “triangles” related to food and/or geography.

12 Named pilgrims in the Canterbury Tales (modernised spellings): Wife of Bath; Host; Prioress; Friar; Reeve; Miller.

13 Nicknames of leading US college sports teams: Ohio State; Alabama; Notre Dame; Texas; Michigan.

14 All flow through Perth.

15 World’s largest cruise lines.