What links Corinne Bailey Rae and Keir Starmer? The Saturday quiz

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Corinne Bailey Rae performing at the Southbank Centre in London in January 2025, wearing a sparkly silver and gold dress, and with the mic in her left hand and right arm outstretched, resting on the mic stand
Putting your records on to figure out the Corinne Bailey Rae clue? Photograph: Joseph Okpako/WireImage

From ‘rocks, but gently’ to Ainu in Asia and Zuni in the US, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz

The questions

1 Which design illustrates the tragic love story of Koong-Se and Chang?
2 Which British woman was nominated for all four Egot awards, but didn’t win any?
3 The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art is in which country?
4 Which Shakespeare play opens in Africa?
5 Which football stadium is officially the Estádio Jornalista Mário Filho?
6 The sun’s nuclear fusion is primarily fuelled by which element?
7 Which naval dockyard closed in 1984 after more than 400 years?
8 Who “rocks, but gently” in a 1967 album title?
What links:
9 Jari Hill, Tanggula mountains; Chongqing; Wuhan; Nanjing; Shanghai?
10 F&F; George; Nutmeg; Tu?
11 Eva Boyd, Victoria Hesketh; Richard Penniman; Steven Van Zandt?
12 New York; Pennsylvania; Hawaii; Connecticut; Arkansas?
13 Alveolar process; mental protuberance; mental spines; oblique line?
14 Brownlee brothers; Mark Knopfler; Corinne Bailey Rae; Keir Starmer; Jack Straw?
15 Ainu in Asia; Basque in Europe; Sandawe in Africa; Zuni in the US?

The answers

1 Willow pattern.
2 Lynn Redgrave (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony).
3 Denmark.
4 Antony and Cleopatra
5 Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro.
6 Hydrogen.
7 Chatham, in Kent.
8 Val Doonican.
9 Yangtze River.
10 Supermarket clothing labels: Tesco; Asda; Morrisons; Sainsbury’s.
11 All billed/nicknamed Little: Little Eva; Little Boots; Little Richard; Little Steven.
12 Birth states of recent US presidents: Trump; Biden; Obama; Bush Jr; Clinton.
13 Parts of the mandible (lower jawbone).
14 Leeds University alumni.
15 Unrelated to other known languages.