Quiz Questions
1. What is the only Asian country wholly in the southern hemisphere?
2. Which cross-Channel service ended in 2000 after 32 years?
3. What 1957 novel was typed on a 37-metre-long scroll?
4. Which two sportswear giants are based in the Bavarian town of Herzogenaurach?
5. Which singer and activist was nicknamed Mama Africa?
6. Pfas are popularly known as what by environmentalists?
7. A pair of Aris Isotoner Lights gloves played a central role in what event?
8. About which operation did Churchill say “wars are not won by evacuations”?
What Links?
9. Jonathan and Oscar Cainer; Debbie Frank; Sally Kirkman; Shelley von Strunckel?
10. Cricket clothing; Lucas and Polanski; Delta music; NZ rugby?
11. Syra (I); Philometor Soteira (II and III); Tryphaena (V); Thea Philopator (VII)?
12. Regnum defende and semper occultus?
13. Black Dyke; Brighouse and Rastrick; Cory; Grimethorpe Colliery?
14. Benjamin Franklin; Michelle Kwan; Clare Boothe Luce; Shirley Temple?
15. Arabic (Roman); Dutch (Calicut); Portuguese (Peru); French and Turkish (Indian)?
Answers
1. Timor-Leste (formerly East Timor).
2. Hovercraft.
3. On the Road by Jack Kerouac.
4. Adidas and Puma.
5. Miriam Makeba.
6. Forever chemicals (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances).
7. Trial of OJ Simpson.
8. Operation Dynamo (Dunkirk evacuation).
Links Explained
9. Astrologers in the media.
10. Colours: whites; Greens; blues; (All) Blacks.
11. Bynames of Egyptian Cleopatra queens.
12. Mottoes of MI5 and MI6.
13. Celebrated brass bands.
14. US ambassadors who were famous in other fields: founding father and polymath; figure skater; writer; film star.
15. Etymologies in various languages of the word for the turkey.
