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The Saturday Quiz: Weekly brain teaser

Chris Maume
Friday 06 November 2015 23:19 GMT
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Pope Paul VI in 1965: What good news did he have for Jewish people that year?
Pope Paul VI in 1965: What good news did he have for Jewish people that year? (Rex Features)

1. What good news was there for Jewish people in Pope Paul VI's 'Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions', part of the Second Vatican Council, in 1965?

2. Which television soap is set in the fictional suburb of Erinsborough?

3. What does Britain's ongoing Operation Relentless administer?

4. Where was the poet Sappho born?

5. In 1982, who was the first person in Britain known to die from HIV/Aids?

6. What name do we give to the mathematical study of change?

7. Which Oscar-winning actor and director, and film-festival founder, worked as a pavement artist in Paris when he was 19?

8. The Classical Latin alphabet has 23 characters. Which three from the modern alphabet are missing?

9. Completed in 1907 in Surrey, which was the world's first purpose-built, off-road motor racing circuit?

10. Where is the Permanent Court for Arbitration, which resolves international disputes, based?

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