Post by Lonely on Dec 12, 2020 7:15:27 GMT
The Questions:
1/- What did Herostratus do to become famous?
2/- Where did Gennady Padalka spend a record 879 days?
3/- Which Shakespeare title character is 13 years old?
4/- What are catalogued on the Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index?
5/- What is the UK’s largest native reptile?
6/- Who cut off his sleeve to avoid waking a sleeping cat?
7/- What was first performed at the interval of Eurovision1994?
8/- Roy, Michael, Sue, Kirsty: who came next?
What links…
9/- Bardsey Island, Gwynedd and Strumble Head, Pembrokeshire?
10/- Theremin; saxophone; sousaphone?
11/- Gabriel Spenser; Alexander Hamilton; Alexander Pushkin?
12/- Issigonis car; eg HB; Cape Town archbishop; Jayne Torvill?
13/- Tuff; gabbro; diabase; scoria; pumice?
14/- Nicole Kidman; Lydia Leonard; Elizabeth Debicki?
1/-5 Mercator; Hammer; Goode; Robinson; Peters?
The Answers:
1/- Burned down the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus.
2/- In space (Mir and ISS).
3/- Juliet.
4/- Folktales.
5/- Grass snake.
6/- Prophet Muhammad (in Islamic tradition).
7/- Riverdance.
8/- Lauren (Laverne, Desert Island Discs presenters).
9/- Cardigan Bay in Wales (northern and southern ends).
10/- Musical instruments named after people: Leon Theremin; Adolphe Sax; John Philip Sousa.
11/- Killed in duels, by: Ben Johnson; Aaron Burr; Georges d’Anthès.
12/- Styles of skirt: mini; pencil; tutu; skater.
13/- Types of igneous rock.
14/- Played Virginia Woolf on film and TV: The Hours; Life In Squares; Vita & Virginia.
15/- World map projections.
1/- What did Herostratus do to become famous?
2/- Where did Gennady Padalka spend a record 879 days?
3/- Which Shakespeare title character is 13 years old?
4/- What are catalogued on the Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index?
5/- What is the UK’s largest native reptile?
6/- Who cut off his sleeve to avoid waking a sleeping cat?
7/- What was first performed at the interval of Eurovision1994?
8/- Roy, Michael, Sue, Kirsty: who came next?
What links…
9/- Bardsey Island, Gwynedd and Strumble Head, Pembrokeshire?
10/- Theremin; saxophone; sousaphone?
11/- Gabriel Spenser; Alexander Hamilton; Alexander Pushkin?
12/- Issigonis car; eg HB; Cape Town archbishop; Jayne Torvill?
13/- Tuff; gabbro; diabase; scoria; pumice?
14/- Nicole Kidman; Lydia Leonard; Elizabeth Debicki?
1/-5 Mercator; Hammer; Goode; Robinson; Peters?
The Answers:
1/- Burned down the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus.
2/- In space (Mir and ISS).
3/- Juliet.
4/- Folktales.
5/- Grass snake.
6/- Prophet Muhammad (in Islamic tradition).
7/- Riverdance.
8/- Lauren (Laverne, Desert Island Discs presenters).
9/- Cardigan Bay in Wales (northern and southern ends).
10/- Musical instruments named after people: Leon Theremin; Adolphe Sax; John Philip Sousa.
11/- Killed in duels, by: Ben Johnson; Aaron Burr; Georges d’Anthès.
12/- Styles of skirt: mini; pencil; tutu; skater.
13/- Types of igneous rock.
14/- Played Virginia Woolf on film and TV: The Hours; Life In Squares; Vita & Virginia.
15/- World map projections.