What links Leonard Cohen, Amelia Earhart and Graham Nash? The Saturday quiz | Quiz and trivia games

The questions

1 What is unique about the time in Cape Verde?

2 What is typically sold from a Whitby Morrison Mondial Lusso?

3 When flying, the Valsalva manoeuvre would be used to do what?

4 Which record producer’s headstone reads “creator of the Manchester sound”?

5 Which game began in the Green Hill Zone?

6 Badr, fought in 624AD, is the only battle mentioned by name in which book?

7 The fake snow in The Wizard of Oz was made from which hazardous material?

8 Which teams made up Scottish football’s New Firm?

What links:

9 Leonard Cohen; Amelia Earhart; David Geffen; Graham Nash; Cary Raditz?

10 Jamestown colony; British Museum; Irish hospitals until 1987; Millennium Dome?

11 Eight carpals; five metacarpals; 14 phalanges?

12 Kim Woodburn and Aggie MacKenzie; Marie Kondo; Sophie Hinchliffe?

13 And Then There Were None; Anne of Green Gables; Lord of the Flies; The Admirable Crichton; The Tempest?

14 Colin McRae, 1995; Richard Burns, 2001; Elfyn Evans, 2026?

15 Blood; Beethoven’s; Man; Protocol; Element; Sense?

The answers

1 Only sovereign state to have time at GMT -1.

2 Ice-cream (leading ice-cream van model).

3 Equalise ear pressure.

4 Martin Hannett (d.1991).

5 Sonic the Hedgehog.

6 Qur’an.

7 Asbestos.

8 Aberdeen and Dundee United (1980s).

9 Inspired songs by Joni Mitchell: Rainy Night House; Amelia; Free Man in Paris; Willy; Carey.

10 Lottery-funded projects.

11 Bones in a hand.

12 Cleaning and tidying influencers.

13 Literary works set on islands.

14 British winners of the World Rally Championship.

15 Film titles with ordinal numbers: First B; B’s 2nd; The Third M; The Fourth P; The Fifth E; The Sixth S.