What connects lawn mowers, pencils and baked beans? Saturday quiz
The Questions
1 The largest religious monument in the world appears on which national flag?2 Which contestants come to the oche?3 Gian Gastone (d. 1737) was the last ruler of which family?4 Which city nearly tripled in size with an Act of Parliament in 1911?5 Japanese chemist Kikunae Ikeda invented which food additive?6 Which group buried its British prize at Stonehenge?7 Which is the densest planet in the solar system?8 Which dog has a Russian name meaning “cannibal”? What links:9 Lawn Mowers (Southport); pencils (Keswick); baked beans (Port Talbot)?10 X in 1932; XXIII in 1984; XXXIV in 2028?11 Encanto; Romanticize the stone; Clear and present danger; Narcos?12 The Year of the End; The Kingdom by the Sea; Far north; The call of the strange? 13 Sydney Opera House; egg chair; Caravaggio lamp; Bowl Margrethe?14 Vanilla planifolia; theobroma cacao; Fragaria ananassa?15 Ethel Barrymore; Vivian Beaumont; Helen Hayes; Lynn Fontanne?
1 Cambodia (Angkor Wat).2 Darts Players.3 Medici (Duke of Tuscany).4 Birmingham (Greater Birmingham Act 1911).5 Monosodium Glutamate.6 KLF.7 Earth.8 Samoyed.
1 The largest religious monument in the world appears on which national flag?2 Which contestants come to the oche?3 Gian Gastone (d. 1737) was the last ruler of which family?4 Which city nearly tripled in size with an Act of Parliament in 1911?5 Japanese chemist Kikunae Ikeda invented which food additive?6 Which group buried its British prize at Stonehenge?7 Which is the densest planet in the solar system?8 Which dog has a Russian name meaning “cannibal”? What links:9 Lawn Mowers (Southport); pencils (Keswick); baked beans (Port Talbot)?10 X in 1932; XXIII in 1984; XXXIV in 2028?11 Encanto; Romanticize the stone; Clear and present danger; Narcos?12 The Year of the End; The Kingdom by the Sea; Far north; The call of the strange? 13 Sydney Opera House; egg chair; Caravaggio lamp; Bowl Margrethe?14 Vanilla planifolia; theobroma cacao; Fragaria ananassa?15 Ethel Barrymore; Vivian Beaumont; Helen Hayes; Lynn Fontanne?
1 Cambodia (Angkor Wat).2 Darts Players.3 Medici (Duke of Tuscany).4 Birmingham (Greater Birmingham Act 1911).5 Monosodium Glutamate.6 KLF.7 Earth.8 Samoyed.
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