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The Weekend Quiz

Which city has hosted a Goose Fair for 700 years? Spoiler alert: answers below (don't cheat!)
Geese graze on Seldom Seen Farm in Billesdon
Take a gander… and guess where the fair is. Photograph: Darren Staples/Reuters

The questions

1 In ancient Egypt, what was kept in canopic jars?
2 Which sport is played during "March madness"?
3 What inspired Shelley's Masque Of Anarchy poem?
4 Who signed the Anti-Comintern Pact in 1936?
5 In France, what is "Norwegian omelette"?
6 Which city has hosted a Goose Fair for 700 years?
7 Which 80s pop group featured eight siblings of the Wolfgramm family?
8 Which English king was imprisoned in Dürnstein castle, Austria?
What links:
9 TR19 7AA and KW1 4YR?
10 Green; blue; red; black (getting tougher)?
11 Elite soldiers of the Achaemenid Empire; members of l'Académie française?
12 The West; America; Mexico; The Midlands; Anatolia?
13 The Voice; Deal Or No Deal; Big Brother?
14 Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard, 1960; James Cameron, 2012?
15 Cleave; to bolt; oversight; model; to lease; impregnable; to scan?

The answers

1 Entrails of mummies.
2 Basketball (US college).
3 Peterloo Massacre.
4 Germany and Japan.
5 Baked Alaska dessert.
6 Nottingham.
7 The Jets.
8 Richard I.
9 Postcodes for Land's End and John O'Groats.
10 Ski runs in Europe.
11 Known as "Immortals".
12 Once Upon A Time In… films.
13 TV formats originating in the Netherlands.
14 Reached the bottom of the Mariana Trench in the Pacific.
15 Autoantonyms: words with two opposing meanings.

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