What links Finding Nemo and Little Shop of Horrors? The Saturday quiz

The questions

1 Whose The Dream (The Bed) is the most expensive painting by a woman?
2 Which capital city is served by Carthage airport?
3 Which famous feuding families appear in Canto VI of Dante’s Purgatory?
4 Lock & Co is the world’s oldest shop selling what?
5 Which composer was bandmaster at the Worcester County and City Lunatic Asylum?
6 At what point in a planet’s orbit is it closest to the sun?
7 Liverpool FC were 2023 league champions in which country?
8 What insulting messages were sent by Victorians on 14 February?
What links:
9 Finding Nemo; Little Shop of Horrors; Marathon Man; The Hangover?
10 Andrea Jaeger; Philip Mulryne; David Sheppard; Taribo West?
11 Billington and Mayman; Block and Quayle; Clemens and August?
12 Alloy; carbon; stainless; tool?
13 Teme; Vyrnwy; Warwickshire Avon; Worcestershire Stour?
14 Maglia Rosa; Maillot Jaune; La Roja?
15 Plutarch; Giorgio Vasari; John Aubrey; Leslie Stephen; Lytton Strachey?

Perplexed by the Purgatory clue? Dante portrayed in a 1465 painting by Domenico di Michelino. Photograph: David Lees/Getty Images

The answers

1 Frida Kahlo ($54.7m at auction in 2025)
2 Tunis.
3 Montecchi and Cappelletti (ie Montague and Capulet).
4 Hats.
5 Edward Elgar.
6 Perihelion.
7 Uruguay.
8 Vinegar Valentines.
9 Films featuring dentists.
10 Sportspeople who went into a religious life: tennis to Dominican nun; football to Catholic priest; cricket to Anglican bishop; football to pastor.
11 Surnames/first names in retailers’ names: B&M; B&Q; C&A.
12 Categories of steel.
13 Tributaries of the River Severn.
14 Leaders’ jerseys of major cycling tours: Giro d’Italia; Tour de France; Vuelta a España.
15 Wrote (or edited) works of collective biography: Parallel Lives; Lives of the Artists; Brief Lives; Dictionary of National Biography; Eminent Victorians.