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Bob Hope, actor and comedian, smiling in a studio portrait, against a yellow background, circa 1950
Beaming Bob Hope. Photograph: Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images
Beaming Bob Hope. Photograph: Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images

What links Bob Hope, Gloria Stuart, George Burns, Olivia de Havilland and Kirk Douglas? The Weekend quiz

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From library ruins to Lollards, test your knowledge with the Weekend quiz

The questions

1 Which troubled theme park is run by the Delos corporation?
2 What was going to be the Bonaparte Symphony?
3 Where are the ruins of the Library of Celsus?
4 Which prize winners receive a Bessie statuette?
5 Who is the subject of Errol Morris’s documentary The Unknown Known?
6 What drink is named from the German for wormwood?
7 The Fla-Flu derby is played in which stadium?
8 What epic work concluded with Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire this year?
What links:
9 Henderson; Ducie; Oeno (total pop zero)?
10 Chaser; Beater; Keeper; Seeker?
11 Bob Hope; Gloria Stuart; George Burns; Olivia de Havilland; Kirk Douglas?
12 Harman and Dromey; Lancaster and Dinenage; Smith and Chapman?
13 A Bend In The River; The Poisonwood Bible; Heart Of Darkness; The Catastrophist?
14 Hunt; Pérez-Mora Macias; Hall; Morad; Hamrick?
15 Bogomils; Waldensians; Albigensians; Lollards?

Riding high with Bonaparte? Photograph: VCG Wilson/Corbis via Getty Images

The answers

1 Westworld (TV series).
2 Beethoven’s third symphony (Eroica).
3 Ephesus, Turkey.
4 Baileys Women’s Fiction Prize.
5 Donald Rumsfeld.
6 Vermouth (Wermut).
7 Maracanã, Rio (Flamengo v Fluminense).
8 Pevsner Architectural Guides (last British guide).
9 Islands in group with Pitcairn.
10 Positions in game of Quidditch.
11 Hollywood centenarians.
12 Married couples in the Commons.
13 Books inspired by/set in Congo.
14 Had children with Mick Jagger.
15 Medieval heretic groups.

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