From Buckyballs to Old Faithful, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz
1 Which monarch owned 640 dogs comprising 32 breeds?
2 Which clothing brand began in the Market Place in South Shields?
3 Buckyballs are a form of which element?
4 What has topped the RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch for the past 20 years?
5 Which food safety measure was pioneered by microbiologist Alice Evans?
6 Old Faithful, or 11 to 15, is an opening move in which game?
7 Philippe Halsman famously photographed his subjects doing what?
8 Which country’s flag promises “order and progress”?
What links:
9 Lieutenant Kijé; Comrade Ogilvy; Bunbury; Captain Tuttle; Susie?
10 Balzac; Paolo Malatesta and Francesca da Rimini; siege of Calais?
11 Ba’; Bottle-kicking; Scoring the Hales; Uppies and Downies?
12 Lost in a Good Book; Havisham; Jack Maggs; Mister Pip?
13 Iphigenia in Greek myth and Isaac in the Bible?
14 Gas giant; Neptunian; super-Earth; terrestrial?
15 England (1485); France (923); Germany (1298); Scotland (1513)? Continue reading...
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