The Saturday quiz challenges readers with 15 questions spanning history, science, and pop culture. Among the highlights is a question about who warned of a 'global heat trap' and 'climate instability' in 1988. The answer: Margaret Thatcher.
Quiz Questions
The questions cover a wide range of topics. For example, how many times does the sun rise each year at the north pole? The answer is once. Which board game inspired the creation of QR codes? Go. Five of the six cataracts of the Nile are in which country? Sudan. In what decade did Germany print a 100-trillion Mark note? The 1920s.
Notable Answers
Other answers include: Sly and Robbie for the rhythm section with surnames Dunbar and Shakespeare; Deirdre Rachid from Coronation Street for 'Free the Weatherfield One'; and Quechua as the main language of the Inca empire.
Links and Connections
The quiz also asks for connections between items. For instance, Barringer, Chicxulub, Vredefort, and Wolfe Creek are meteor/asteroid impact craters. Smokin’ Joe, Fighting Marine, Neon Leon, and Easton Assassin are nicknames of boxers who defeated Muhammad Ali: Joe Frazier, Ken Norton, Leon Spinks, and Larry Holmes. American Legion, Theodor Escherich, Daniel Salmon, staff, and twisted berry relate to etymology of bacteria: legionella, E. coli, salmonella, bacillus (Latin), and streptococcus (Greek).
People on the Beatles' Sgt Pepper album cover still alive include Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Larry Bell, Dion DiMucci, and Bob Dylan. Symbols represented by a triangle include brewery logo, laundry label, jazz notation, and on OS map. Alleged attempted assassins of Donald Trump are Cole Allen, Thomas Crooks, and Ryan Routh. Queens with accession year and age: Elizabeth I (1558, 25), Mary II (1689, 26), Anne (1702, 37), Victoria (1837, 18), Elizabeth II (1952, 25).
