What links Esperanza Spalding and Kim Deal? The Saturday quiz
From Proxima Centauri b and Trappist-1 system to ophidiophobia, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz1 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? Continue reading...

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? Continue reading...