The David Bowie Centre is part of which museum? The Saturday quiz

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The questions

1 10,935 metres is the answer to which question, posed by an Irving Berlin song?
2 Which empire had its capital at Cusco?
3 Who released her bestselling Workout fitness video in 1982?
4 In which sport does Rhein Fire play the Alpine Rams?
5 Greater mouse-eared is the UK’s largest and rarest species of which mammal?
6 The David Bowie Centre is part of which museum?
7 Giandujot and SuperCrema are the predecessors of which spread?
8 Richard Moth was appointed to which religious post last year?
What links:
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Cricket; crow; cuckoo; dik-dik; gecko; owl?
10 Richmond and Charleston (Tudor); Raleigh and Columbia (Stuart); Atlanta (Hanover)?
11 Chan; kun; sama; san; senpai; sensei; shi?
12 Ninoy Aquino assassination; Brink’s-Mat robbery; Entebbe raid; Rudolf Nureyev defection?
13 Tu Youyou, 2015; Alphonse Laveran, 1907; Ronald Ross, 1902?
14 Benjamin Franklin Z Grill; Inverted Jenny; Treskilling Yellow; Tyrian Plum?
15 Australian and US TV; Jackson 5; Martin Fry; Poirot case?

Eagle owl perching on a colourful autumn tree, looking into the camera with a quizzical expression
Keeping your eyes peeled over the owl clue? Photograph: Andrea & Tim photography/Getty Images

The answers

1 How Deep Is the Ocean (figure is Challenger Deep in the Pacific).
2 Inca.
3 Jane Fonda.
4 American football (American Football League Europe).
5 Bat.
6 V&A (East Storehouse).
7 Nutella.
8 Archbishop of Westminster.
9 Animals with onomatopoeic names.
10 Capital of US states and dynastic origin of state name: Virginia and West Virginia (Elizabeth I); North and South Carolina (Charles I); Georgia (George II).
11 Japanese honorifics.
12 Incidents that happened in or around airports: Manila; Heathrow; Uganda; Le Bourget.
13 Nobel prize winners for discoveries relating to malaria.
14 Rare and valuable postage stamps.
15 ABC: ABC broadcasters; 1970 hit; singer in band ABC; Agatha Christie’s The ABC Murders.

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