What links Catching Fire, Lucky and The Moonstone? The Saturday quiz | Quiz and trivia games

The questions

1 Which 1999 release had the longest constant shoot in film history?
2 The Republican and True Whig parties were rivals in which African country?
3 What cooker was invented by Fred van der Weij in 2006?
4 Which novel’s first line dismisses “all that David Copperfield kind of crap”?
5 Spurn Point is at the mouth of which body of water?
6 What is the liturgical language of Egyptian Christianity?
7 The five Irish classics take place at which racecourse?
8 In the artwork Lovers, Marina Abramović and Ulay each walked half of what?
What links:
9
The Illinois, Chicago; L’Oeuf de Pompidou, Paris; Palace of the Soviets, Moscow?
10 Henry Cejudo; Kayla Harrison; Kevin Jackson; Ronda Rousey?
11 Holborn and St Pancras; Kingston and Surbiton; North West Essex?
12 Boom!; Cleopatra; The Comedians; The VIPs; Under Milk Wood (and 6 others)?
13 01 (eyesight correction); 40 (modified steering); 115 (organ donor); 125 (tricycles only)?
14 Catching Fire; London Belongs to Me; Lucky; The Moonstone?
15 1865; 1881; 1901; 1963?

Drawing a blank on the Marina Abramović clue? Photograph: Mike McGregor/The Observer

The answers

1 Eyes Wide Shut (15 months).
2 Liberia.
3 Air fryer.
4 The Catcher in the Rye.
5 Humber estuary.
6 Coptic.
7 The Curragh.
8 Great Wall of China.
9 Unbuilt monumental buildings.
10 Olympic medallists who fought in the UFC.
11 Constituencies of UK party leaders: Starmer; Davey; Badenoch.
12 Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor films.
13 Driving licence codes.
14 Novels by a Collins: Suzanne; Norman; Jackie; Wilkie.
15 Years of US presidential assassinations: Lincoln; Garfield; McKinley; Kennedy.

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