From Proxima Centauri b and Trappist-1 system to ophidiophobia, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz
1 The longest direct flight from London goes to which city?
2 Until 1752, when did the new year officially begin in England?
3 Which action film hero suffers from ophidiophobia?
4 AE Stallings succeeded Alice Oswald in what role?
5 Which country’s president was shot by his intelligence chief in 1979?
6 Which marsupial is native to North America?
7 Vanwall, in 1958, was the first winner of what title?
8 Who wrote Natural History, the longest surviving single Roman text?
What links:
9 Lumbini; Bodh Gaya; Sarnath; Kushinagar?
10 51 Pegasi b; Kepler-22b; Proxima Centauri b; Trappist-1 system?
11 Miller; Marshall; O’Hanlon; Little; Gilet?
12 Gun; orlop; poop; quarter; upper; well?
13 Chateau de Châlus-Chabrol; Pontefract Castle; Bosworth Field?
14 Birmingham (1); Liverpool (6); London (2); Manchester (4); Nottingham (2)?
15 Kim Deal; Kim Gordon; Carol Kaye; Esperanza Spalding; Tina Weymouth?