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Which marsupials established a colony in the Peak District? The Weekend quiz

<span>Photograph: Alamy</span>
Photograph: Alamy

The questions

1 What protest began at a 49ers v Chargers game in 2016?
2 Mobile numbers 07700 900000 to 900999 are used for what?
3 Who are the proud parents of X Æ A-XII?
4 Which marsupials established a colony in the Peak District?
5 The sarsen trilithons are part of which site?
6 In parliament, what are the “usual channels”?
7 Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cranford was based on which town?
8 What are stored in jewel cases?
What links:
9
Key Largo; The Drowning Pool; Dead Again;
Eyes Wide Shut?
10 Mariner 10; Messenger; BepiColombo
(in 2025)?
11 1535 and 1542; 1707; 1800?
12 Pastern; fetlock; cannon; hock; gaskin?
13 Sunken fence; Barry and Paul Elliott;
Ghostface films; Ginsberg poem?
14 Staircase, Milan; Phoenix, Venice;
St Charles, Naples?
15 Matilda; Valentine; Crusader; Cromwell; Comet?

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The answers

1 Kaepernick and Eric Reid, 1 September 2016.
2 Fictional numbers in dramas (recommended by Ofcom).
3 Grimes and Elon Musk.
4 Wallabies.
5 Stonehenge.
6 Working relationship of the government and the opposition whips.
7 Knutsford in Cheshire.
8 CDs (and jewels).
9 Films starring married couples: Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall; Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward; Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson; Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman.
10 Probes sent to Mercury.
11 Acts of Union: England and Wales; England and Scotland; Great Britain and Ireland.
12 Parts of a horse’s leg.
13 Laughter: ha-ha; Chuckle (Brothers); Scream; Howl.
14 Meanings of names of Italian opera houses: La Scala; La Fenice; San Carlo.
15 British tanks of the second world war.