Post by Lonely on Nov 27, 2020 20:25:31 GMT
The questions:
1/- In 396 BC, Cynisca became the first woman to win where?
2/- Which composer had “lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour”?
3/- What prize was founded in 1968 by Sweden’s central bank?
4/- Which bird was the closest relative of the Rodrigues solitaire?
5/- Mercosur is which continent’s trading bloc?
6/- Which British literary magazine was funded by the CIA?
7/- Jeu provençal is a form of which game?
8/- Steiff made black mourning teddies after what event?
What links…
9/- Sluys (1340) and Castillon (1453)?
10/- Peter Pan; God Bless America; Take Five; Dorothy Parker’s works?
11/- Lut; Kavir; Thar; Karakum; Negev?
12/- Sybil; Savrola; Seventy-Two Virgins?
13/- Aeolian; Allegri; Amadeus; Balanescu; Brodsky?
14/- Angry Farmer; Angles; Wizard of Wishaw; Jester from Leicester?
15/- (In ascending order) Turkey; Panama; Burundi; New Zealand; China; Australia?
The answers:
1/- Olympic Games (chariot race, as an owner/trainer).
2/- Wagner (according to Rossini).
3/- Nobel Prize in economics.
4/- Dodo.
5/- South America.
6/- Encounter (established 1953).
7/- Boules.
8/- Sinking of the Titanic.
9/- First and last major battles of the hundred years war.
10/- Works whose copyright/royalties donated to charity: Great Ormond Street hospital; Scouts; Red Cross; NAACP.
11/- Asian deserts (Iran (x 2); India/Pakistan; Turkmenistan; Israel).
12/- Novels by prime ministers: Disraeli; Churchill; Johnson.
13/- String quartets.
14/- Snooker nicknames: David Gilbert; Alan McManus; John Higgins; Mark Selby.
15/- Stars on national flag (from 1 to 6).
1/- In 396 BC, Cynisca became the first woman to win where?
2/- Which composer had “lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour”?
3/- What prize was founded in 1968 by Sweden’s central bank?
4/- Which bird was the closest relative of the Rodrigues solitaire?
5/- Mercosur is which continent’s trading bloc?
6/- Which British literary magazine was funded by the CIA?
7/- Jeu provençal is a form of which game?
8/- Steiff made black mourning teddies after what event?
What links…
9/- Sluys (1340) and Castillon (1453)?
10/- Peter Pan; God Bless America; Take Five; Dorothy Parker’s works?
11/- Lut; Kavir; Thar; Karakum; Negev?
12/- Sybil; Savrola; Seventy-Two Virgins?
13/- Aeolian; Allegri; Amadeus; Balanescu; Brodsky?
14/- Angry Farmer; Angles; Wizard of Wishaw; Jester from Leicester?
15/- (In ascending order) Turkey; Panama; Burundi; New Zealand; China; Australia?
The answers:
1/- Olympic Games (chariot race, as an owner/trainer).
2/- Wagner (according to Rossini).
3/- Nobel Prize in economics.
4/- Dodo.
5/- South America.
6/- Encounter (established 1953).
7/- Boules.
8/- Sinking of the Titanic.
9/- First and last major battles of the hundred years war.
10/- Works whose copyright/royalties donated to charity: Great Ormond Street hospital; Scouts; Red Cross; NAACP.
11/- Asian deserts (Iran (x 2); India/Pakistan; Turkmenistan; Israel).
12/- Novels by prime ministers: Disraeli; Churchill; Johnson.
13/- String quartets.
14/- Snooker nicknames: David Gilbert; Alan McManus; John Higgins; Mark Selby.
15/- Stars on national flag (from 1 to 6).