What is the pan-European emergency telephone number? The Saturday quiz

From Adventure Galley and Queen Anne’s Revenge to a bus station that’s a classic of brutalist architecture, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz1 Emily Firmin was the only human in which children’s TV series?2 What is the most spoken language written in Devanagari script?3 Which brothers were, respectively, King of Scots and High King of Ireland?4 What is the pan-European emergency telephone number?5 Who has trained a record 12 Epsom Derby winners?6 Where is the bus station a classic of brutalist architecture?7 Who is said to have found the True Cross in Jerusalem in the fourth century?8 Whose last general election victory was in 1906?What links: 9 Photographed by Luna 3; Berlin 1961-89; Judith Chalmers series; Wind in the Willows, ch 7?10 Adventure Galley; Fancy; Queen Anne’s Revenge; Royal Fortune; Whydah?11 Daedalus; George London and Henry Wise; Adrian Fisher?12 LA Dodgers; San Francisco Giants; New York Jets; New York Giants?13 Maestro; Taking Sides; Tár; Unfaithfully Yours?14 Satoshi; Wei; lamport; lovelace? 15 John II; Louis Philippe I; Napoleon III? Continue reading...

The questions

1Emily Firmin was the only human in which children’s TV series?
2What is the most spoken language written in Devanagari script?
3Which brothers were, respectively, King of Scots and High King of Ireland?
4What is the pan-European emergency telephone number?
5Who has trained a record 12 Epsom Derby winners?
6Where is the bus station a classic of brutalist architecture?
7Who is said to have found the True Cross in Jerusalem in the fourth century?
8Whose last general election victory was in 1906?
What links:
9Photographed by Luna 3; Berlin 1961-89; Judith Chalmers series; Wind in the Willows, ch 7?
10Adventure Galley; Fancy; Queen Anne’s Revenge; Royal Fortune; Whydah?
11Daedalus; George London and Henry Wise; Adrian Fisher?
12LA Dodgers; San Francisco Giants; New York Jets; New York Giants?
13Maestro; Taking Sides; Tár; Unfaithfully Yours?
14Satoshi; Wei; lamport; lovelace?
15John II; Louis Philippe I; Napoleon III?

Bradley Cooper in the film Maestro, sitting at a table and smoking a cigarette — In a muddle over the Maestro clue? … Bradley Cooper as composer Leonard Bernstein.Photograph: FlixPix/Alamy

The answers

1Bagpuss.
2Hindi.
3Robert the Bruce and Edward Bruce.
4112.
5Aidan O’Brien.
6Preston.
7St Helena (Emperor Constantine’s mother).
8Liberal party (Campbell-Bannerman).
9Pink Floyd albums: The Dark Side of the Moon; The Wall; Wish You Were Here; The Piper at the Gates of Dawn.
10Pirate ships: Captain Kidd; Henry Every; Blackbeard; Bartholomew Roberts; Sam Bellamy.
11Famous maze designers: Cretan labyrinth in myth; Hampton Court maze; present day.
12Sports teams that have moved out of New York (NY Jets and Giants NFL sides now play in New Jersey).
13Films about conductors.
14Subdivisions of cryptocurrencies: bitcoin; Ethereum; Solana; Cardano.
15French rulers who died in exile in England: 1364; 1850; 1873.