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From Barbarian invasions and lead poisoning to Saturday Night Fever and the shipping forecast, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz
1 What did Thomas Austin notoriously introduce to Australia in 1859?
2 Which social media site’s founder is married to Serena Williams?
3 What shipping forecast area is named after a UK city?
4 What is the chemical formula for diamond?
5 Which literary character loved “life; London; this moment of June”?
6 Where did Eoka fight against British rule?
7 What contains 42 vowels and 56 consonants?
8 Which monarch commissioned and was depicted in the Wilton Diptych?
What links:
9 Do the Right Thing; Goodfellas; Moonstruck; Radio Days; Saturday Night Fever?
10 Lena; Mackenzie; Ob; Yenisey; Yukon?
11 Encyclopedia Britannica (2010); New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2001); Oxford English Dictionary (1989)?
12 Air; butterfly; chef’s; French, Glasgow?
13 Barbarian invasions; Christianity; homosexuality; lead poisoning; plague?
14 Sarazen; Hogan; Player; Nicklaus; Woods; McIlroy?
15 Land; canton; oblast; vármegye; województwo?
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