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Send in the clown. Photograph: Getty Images
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What nocturnal primate is named from the Dutch for 'clown'? The Weekend quiz

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From an aristocratic writer to a woolly sculpin: test your knowledge with the Weekend quiz

The questions

1 Which aristocratic writer fronted the band Decca and the Dectones?
2 What is the longest river on the Iberian peninsula?
3 During the world wars, what was the WLA?
4 What line precedes, “Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring”?
5 Which pub name celebrates Charles II’s hiding place?
6 What type of artwork comprises tesserae?
7 What nocturnal primate is named from the Dutch for “clown”?
8 What country calls itself the Bolivarian Republic?
What links:
9
London (1); Liverpool (6); Milan (10); Madrid (13)?
10 Geographic; magnetic; geomagnetic?
11 US TV; Dutch Caribbean; solved by Poirot; Sheffield group?
12 Riddley Walker; A Clockwork Orange; The Wake?
13 Loop; arch; whorl?
14 Lungfish; mudskipper; northern snakehead; woolly sculpin?
15 Mojang; Valve; EA; Rockstar?

Malcolm McDowell in A Clockwork Orange, 1971. Photograph: Warner Bros Pictures

The answers

1 Jessica Mitford.
2 Tagus.
3 Women’s Land Army.
4 A little learning is a dangerous thing (Alexander Pope poem).
5 The Royal Oak.
6 Mosaic.
7 Loris.
8 Venezuela.
9 European Cup/Champions League wins by city.
10 Types of pole on Earth.
11 ABC: American Broadcasting Company; islands Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao; ABC murders; ABC.
12 Novels in invented languages: Russell Hoban; Anthony Burgess; Paul Kingsnorth.
13 Fingerprint pattern types.
14 Amphibious fish.
15 Computer game developers.

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