What links the gramophone and Antoinette Perry? The Saturday quiz
9 Lariat; opera; matinee; princess; choker?10 Olly Alexander; Simon Le Bon; Karen O; Marti Pellow; Katie White?11 A Room of One's Own; The Common Reader; Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid?12 46656; 3125; 256; 27; 4; 1?13 Image orthicon tube; gramophone; Margaret Herrick's uncle (possibly); Antoinette Perry?14 Viv Anderson, 1978, and Kerry Davis, 1982?15 Buchanan Castle; Tower of London; Spandau prison?
1 Samuel Pepys.2 Dante (Divine Comedy).3 Japan.4 John Surtees.5 Yorkshire shepherdess.6 Danube.7 Brahma.8 Heath Robinson.9 Lengths of necklace.10 Singers in bands with repeated names: Years & Years; Duran Duran; Yeah Yeah Yeahs; Wet Wet Wet; Ting Tings.11 Essays by Virginia Woolf.12 x to the power of x, from 6 to 1.13 Name origins of Egot awards: Emmy; Grammy; Oscar; Tony.14 First black players for senior England men's and women's teams.15 Rudolf Hess housed there after his flight to Scotland.
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