The Saturday Quiz: Weekly brain teaser

Chris Maume
Friday 04 March 2016 20:04 EST
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Celebrities have been using awards ceremonies to air their views on the current US administration
Celebrities have been using awards ceremonies to air their views on the current US administration

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1. Which Best Picture Oscar winner was subtitled 'or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)'?

2. Jackspeak is slang used by whom?

3. Which band's first gig was at St Martin's College in London on 6 November 1975?

4. How was Muslim minister el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz, murdered in 1965, better known?

5. Which item of clothing drew gasps at Louis Réard's 1946 Paris fashion show?

6. Which London structure, completed in 1964, did not for some decades appear on Ordnance Survey maps for security reasons?

7. Kolven (Netherlands), Chole (France and Belgium), Chuiwan (China) – all precursors of which sport?

8. Which American (1867-1959) declared himself 'the greatest living architect'?

9. Which aid organisation was formed in 1971 from two bodies, one created in response to the Biafran war, the other to a cyclone in Bangladesh?

10. What's the time on the Doomsday Clock kept by 'Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists', as of January 2015?

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