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What is the alabai, honoured by a golden statue in Turkmenistan? The Weekend quiz

Thomas Eaton
·1 min read
<span>Photograph: Getty Images</span>
Photograph: Getty Images

The questions

1 Which computer pioneers brawled in a Cambridge pub in 1984?
2 What is the alabai, honoured by a golden statue in Turkmenistan?
3 Who was the legendary Christian ruler of the east?
4 Which author of A Serious Proposal is hailed as the first English feminist?
5 What is Europe’s largest bank by asset value?
6 What body tissue is named from the Latin for mouse?
7 What boasts of “over one billion edits”?
8 Which rappers were pardoned by President Trump?
What links:
9 Got; also; golfer’s warning; consumed; German refusal?
10 Zander; bitterling; sunbleak; pumpkinseed?
11 Maeshowe; Ring of Brodgar; Stones of Stenness; Skara Brae?
12 Russia (1 & 9); Canada (2 & 39); China (3 & 1); USA (4 & 3)?
13 Prominence; chromosphere; diamond ring; Baily’s beads?
14 Huddersfield Town; Arsenal; Liverpool; Manchester United (twice)?
15 Pierre Curie; Antoni Gaudi; Roland Barthes?

Diamond ring
Diamonds are for ever... Photograph: Getty Images

The answers

1 Clive Sinclair and Chris Curry.
2 Shepherd dog.
3 Prester John.
4 Mary Astell.
5 HSBC.
6 Muscle.
7 Wikipedia (20th anniversary logo).
8 Lil Wayne and Kodak Black.
9 Number homophones: won; too; fore; ate; nein.
10 Non-native fish in the UK.
11 Neolithic sites on Orkney.
12 Country ranking by area & population.
13 Observed during a solar eclipse.
14 Won three consecutive league titles.
15 Fatally run over: dray; tram; laundry van.