What connects the Coldstream Guards band and the Style Council? Saturday Quiz

Paul Weller playing with the Style Council. Photograph: Phil Dent/Redferns

1. Lana Peters, who passed away in Wisconsin in 2011, was the daughter of Joseph Stalin and Nadezhda Alliluyeva.

2. Reykjavik in Iceland holds the title of the world’s northernmost national capital city.

3. In France, a Montgolfière refers to a hot air balloon.

4. Edward II of England was born in Caernarfon.

5. Golden Miller achieved a unique sporting double in 1934 by winning both the Cheltenham Gold Cup and the Grand National.

6. Quinine, a medical remedy, was derived from cinchona bark.

7. Nasdaq was the world’s first electronic stock market in the US.

8. Lina, owned by Albert Einstein, was a violin.

9. What links Guérin, Rimet, Rous, Havelange, Blatter? All were Presidents of FIFA.

10. The Coldstream Guards band, Status Quo, The Style Council, and The Boomtown Rats were the first acts of Live Aid in 1985.

11. Angoroj (1964), Incubus (1966), Gerda Malaperis! (2006), La Patro (2007) are all feature films in Esperanto.

12. Kent, New Jersey in the US, and Victoria in Australia are all known as the “garden” – garden of England, garden state, and garden state respectively.

13. Baruch, Esdras, Judith, Susanna, and Tobit are books of the Apocrypha in the King James Bible.

14. Ford car models A in 1903, B and C in 1904, F in 1905, and T in 1908 were launched in these years.

15. The constituencies of recent PMs: Truss represented South-West Norfolk; Sunak represented Richmond; Starmer represented Holborn and St Pancras.

Source: The Guardian