What links Frankie Goes to Hollywood and Ariana Grande? The Saturday quiz
9 An American Tragedy; Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; Mrs Dalloway; The Great Gatsby; The Trial?10 The Beatles; John Travolta; John Lennon; Frankie Goes to Hollywood; Madonna; Ariana Grande?11 Reeves; Reeve; Cain; Routh; Cavill; Corenswet?12 Iquitos; Leticia; Manaus and Macapá?13 Adam and Eve; Four Horsemen; Praying Hands; Rhinoceros; Young Hare?14 Giuseppe Savoldi (Napoli) and Olivia Smith (Arsenal)?15 1960s TV witch; daughter of Prospero; North Carolina's largest city; Stephen King's first novel?
1 Rihanna.2 Hurricane Katrina.3 A Minecraft Movie.4 Dome of the Rock (Jerusalem).5 The Thick of It.6 Hong Kong and Macau.7 Shooting.8 Communist Party of Great Britain.9 Novels published 100 years ago: Dreiser; Loos; Woolf; Fitzgerald; Kafka.10 Had No 1 and No 2 singles at the same time.11 Played Superman on film and TV.12 Cities on the Amazon river: Peru; Colombia; Brazil.13 Albrecht Dürer works.14 First million-pound male/female footballers (paying club).15 Sex and the City leads: Samantha; Miranda; Charlotte; Carrie.
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