Louis Wain’s drawing of cats at the barbers, 1892. — Louis Wain’s cats at the barbers, 1892. Photograph: Cannasue/Getty Images/iStockphoto

What links Julian Assange with Dominic Cummings and Louis Wain? The Saturday quiz

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From the monarch with a dragon tattoo to the god of dreams: test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz

The questions

1 Which British monarch had a dragon tattoo?
2 Which city has hosted both the summer and winter Olympics?
3 Virginia Woolf co-founded which publishing house?
4 What should be back in 2061?
5 Which drug is named after an ancient god of dreams?
6 Who painted himself and his wife naked with a leg of lamb?
7 The 92220 Evening Star was the last of what?
8 Drop, cover and hold on is the safety drill for what?
What links:
9 African sacred; giant; scarlet; northern bald; Australian white?
10 Julian Assange; Dominic Cummings; Alan Turing; Louis Wain?
11 Gott! Welch’ Dunkel hier!; E lucevan le stelle; Vois ma misère, hélas!?
12 32 London Bridge Street; 30 St Mary Axe; 1 Canada Square?
13 Punta Gallinas, Colombia, and Cape Froward, Chile?
14 Celtic; Mogul; Renegade; Trailblazer; Eagle?
15 Mars-la-Tour; Gravelotte; Sedan; Le Mans?

beach at Punta Gallinas, Colombia — What links this place to a cape in Chile? Photograph: Luke Farmer/Alamy

The answers

1 George V.
2 Beijing (2008 and 2022).
3 Hogarth Press.
4 Halley’s comet.
5 Morphine (Morpheus).
6 Stanley Spencer.
7 Steam locomotive built by British Railways.
8 Earthquakes.

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9 Species of ibis.
10 Played on screen by Benedict Cumberbatch.
11 Opera arias sung by prisoners: Fidelio; Tosca; Samson and Delilah.
12 Addresses of London skyscrapers: Shard; Gherkin; Canary Wharf tower.
13 Northernmost and southernmost points of mainland South America.
14 Secret Service code names for US presidents: Biden; Trump; Obama; W Bush; Clinton.
15 Franco-Prussian war battles.

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