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What links My Fair Lady, Boy on a Dolphin and West Side Story? The Saturday quiz

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The questions

1 The UK’s video recorders were reset in 1997 in advance of what?

2 Which tree is described by the Woodland Trust as “ancient, morbid, toxic”?

3 Which Midwest university has the biggest sports stadium in the US?

4 Henry and Edward are the title characters of what 1886 novella?

5 Which Hollywood star couldn’t abide wire hangers?

6 In 1413, whose body was moved from King’s Langley Priory to Westminster Abbey?

7 Which races are held over the 37-mile Snaefell Mountain Course?

8 Which soft drink was originally launched as Pickup’s Appetiser?

What links:

9 Cecily stained glass; Meiping vase; Rodin’s Thinker; Temple Pyx fragment; Wagner garden carpet?

10 The King and I; Boy on a Dolphin; My Fair Lady; West Side Story?

11 Fátima; Guadalupe; Knock; La Salette; Walsingham?

12 Sumerian; Akkadian; Babylonian; Assyrian?

13 Bayern’s Müller and WBA’s Brown; middleweight Graham; Air Marshal Harris?

14 I Am Maximus; Tiger Roll; Reynoldstown; Poethlyn?

15 Archaea; Bacteria; Eukarya?

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