From Akkadian and Babylonian to ‘ancient, morbid and toxic’, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz
1 The UK’s video recorders were reset in 1997 in advance of what?
2 Which tree is described by the Woodland Trust as “ancient, morbid, toxic”?
3 Which Midwest university has the biggest sports stadium in the US?
4 Henry and Edward are the title characters of what 1886 novella?
5 Which Hollywood star couldn’t abide wire hangers?
6 In 1413, whose body was moved from King’s Langley Priory to Westminster Abbey?
7 Which races are held over the 37-mile Snaefell Mountain Course?
8 Which soft drink was originally launched as Pickup’s Appetiser?
What links:
9 Cecily stained glass; Meiping vase; Rodin’s Thinker; Temple Pyx fragment; Wagner garden carpet?
10 The King and I; Boy on a Dolphin; My Fair Lady; West Side Story?
11 Fátima; Guadalupe; Knock; La Salette; Walsingham?
12 Sumerian; Akkadian; Babylonian; Assyrian?
13 Bayern’s Müller and WBA’s Brown; middleweight Graham; Air Marshal Harris?
14 I Am Maximus; Tiger Roll; Reynoldstown; Poethlyn?
15 Archaea; Bacteria; Eukarya?
From Akkadian and Babylonian to ‘ancient, morbid and toxic’, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz1 The UK’s video recorders were reset in 1997 in advance of what? 2 Which tree is described by the Woodland Trust...
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