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What links Stranger Things and Fargo? The Saturday quiz

<span>Photograph: PA Images/Alamy</span>
Photograph: PA Images/Alamy

The questions

1 Which African country is named from the Portuguese for prawn?
2 Why was Janet Young unique in UK politics 1979-1990?
3 Which cult musician initiated No Music Day?
4 Which Truman Capote book was a pioneer of the true crime genre?
5 The Romito Bridge in Laterina is claimed to feature in which painting?
6 Egas Moniz won a Nobel prize for what discredited surgical procedure?
7 Which dynasty used the acrostic slogan AEIOU?
8 What did wildcatters go in search of?
What links:
9
Destroyed by Babylonians, 587BC; rebuilt by Herod; destroyed by Romans, 70AD?
10 Robert Frost; Bonnie Raitt; Matt Damon; Bill Gates; Mark Zuckerberg?
11 Stranger Things; The Matrix; Fargo; Avengers: Endgame?
12 Lorne sausage; BSB dish; Times or Taksim; 1, 4, 9, 16 etc?
13 Edith Head; Milena Canonero; Colleen Atwood; Ruth E. Carter?
14 Last Cocked Hat (5); Old Hickory (7); His Accidency (10); Rail Splitter (16)?
15 Yama; Anubis; Hades; Pluto; Hel?

The answers

1 Cameroon.
2 Only woman appointed to the Cabinet by Margaret Thatcher.
3 Bill Drummond (the KLF).
4 In Cold Blood.
5 Mona Lisa.
6 Lobotomy.
7 Habsburgs.
8 Oil.
9 Fates of Temples of Jerusalem.
10 Harvard drop-outs.
11 Film/TV made by sibling partnerships: Duffers; Wachowskis; Coens; Russos.
12 Square: square sausage; Squarial satellite dish; New York and Istanbul squares; square numbers.
13 Multiple Oscar-winning costume designers.
14 Nicknames of 19th-century US presidents: James Monroe; Andrew Jackson; John Tyler; Abraham Lincoln.
15 Gods/goddesses of the dead: Hindu; Egyptian; Greek; Roman; Norse.