From Mark Darcy to Megatherium, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz1 Which head of state’s head was displayed at Westminster Hall in 1661?
2 What are the elements of the triangle of combustion?
3 The elephant-sized Megatherium was a type of what animal?
4 Which multinational team made its Olympic debut in Rio 2016?
5 Which book’s title character is called Lemuel?
6 Where did David Scott drop a feather and a hammer?
7 What did Orca, a lagotto romagnolo, win in Birmingham this year?
8 On social media, who is @thenotoriousmma?
What links:
9 Labra coffee pop-up shopping malls?
10 Victoria Woodhull, Belva Lockwood, 1884 and Margaret Chase Smith, 1964?
11 Buenos Aires (4); Montevideo (3); Canberra (2); Wellington (1)?
12 Met Sultan al-K tamed a preached to received stigmata on La Verna?
13 G; PG; PG-13; R; NC-17?
14 Speak Now; Red; Repu Eras?
15 Mr Jaggers and Sydney C Jonathan H Atticus F Mark Darcy? Continue reading...
Thursday 21 September 2023
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