{"id":70792,"date":"2025-08-15T18:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T18:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/70792\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T18:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T18:03:09","slug":"ira-levin-scotus-and-turned-up-to-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/70792\/","title":{"rendered":"Ira Levin, SCOTUS and turned up to 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for free<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__content-sign-up-topic-description o3-type-body-base\">Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>All the answers here are linked in some way. Once you\u2019ve spotted the connection, any you didn\u2019t know the first time around should become easier.<\/p>\n<p>Which English city is 56 miles north-west of London, 64 miles south-east of Birmingham and 61 miles north-east of Bristol?<\/p>\n<p>Which horror novel by Ira Levin \u2014 the bestselling horror novel of the 1960s \u2014 had some passages cut in Franco\u2019s Spain because they \u201cglorified Satan\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>What name is given to the vow made in France in 1789 \u201cnot to separate and to reassemble wherever necessary until the constitution of the Kingdom is established\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>In American football, what does RB stand for?<\/p>\n<p>In American politics, what does SCOTUS stand for?<\/p>\n<p>Richard Osman\u2019s bother Mat is the bassist with which Britpop-era band?<\/p>\n<p>What surname is shared by the first main presenter of Newsnight and the longest-serving presenter of Channel 4 News?<\/p>\n<p>Which film is the origin of the phrase \u201cturned up to 11\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s the usual two-word phrase for the first level of seating in the theatre above the stalls?<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s the nickname of the 1923 FA Cup final, the first to be held at Wembley?<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/06466095-453e-42f1-819f-e4322dd83a39\" data-trackable=\"link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> for the answers<\/p>\n<p>James Walton is co-host of \u201cThe Booker Prize Podcast\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[64,63,99,186,184,185],"class_list":{"0":"post-70792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-finance","12":"tag-personal-finance","13":"tag-personalfinance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}