Do ya worst 13 is just ace The questions 1 Six Nobel prizes have involved research into which insects? 2 Where did Changeover Day take place on 14 February, 1966? 3 What was carried by Simon from Cyrene? 4 Which writer’s daughter was Princess Diana’s stepmother? 5 Which South American country has Atlantic and Pacific coastlines? 6 Stan Campbell sang which 1980s protest song? 7 What claims to be the world’s first fully vegan football club? 8 Where did liberty horses perform? What links: 9 Milos, Greece; Arles, France; Willendorf, Austria? 10 Mercury; Rodgers; Lambert? 11 Margaret of Anjou & Elizabeth Woodville; Lucy Cavendish; Elizabeth Hughes? 12 Roll hoop; halo; Hans device? 13 Founder of Moscow; first Mr Men character; 1976 Kenner action doll? 14 Lusitania; Aquitania; Dacia; Belgica; Britannia? 15 Jennet Humfrye; Johnny Cash; Gary Player; Jonah Lomu?
4 Barbara Cartland 5. More than one surely? Columbia / Chile? (My geography is terrible…are they both technically South America?) 6. Free ee ee Nelson Mandela 7. Forest Green 8. Circus rings? 10 Queen singers 11. Head protection 15 Kidney disease? (cheerful guess!) Think I got more than usual but not checked hence question marks
I’m very pleased with 11 not your answer Cos I worked there You need to think about 15 a bit more den!!!!!
Good effort DBT!! I got 3,which is a vast improvement on my normal 'effort'... Answers can be found in the Guardian for those who cheat
You are Thomas Eaton and I claim my £5 P.S,can't you post one from the Star for the more educationally challenged like me?
Oh... Smith & Nephew for 11? 15 was a wld stab in the dark just based on Lumo and Cash (my favourite 70's detective duo...)
I'll have a stab at Locusts for 1, or Bees. 13: Mr Happy although this seems unlikely for Moscow Random guess of 8: Moulin Rouge for the Liberty horses or Barnum's Circus.
For 15, Player used to always wear Black didn't he? Don't know much about egg-chasing but assume Lomu was an all black. And the other two ... er yeah. Them too.
Or they were all short-arses and only chose their careers after being told they were too short to play football. I think this is the right answer. Yes, has to be
1 mosquitoes? Edit, no damn it, it’ll be fruit flies. Biologists love ‘em 8 the circus 13 long arms (I’ll admit to googling the founder of Moscow to verify my answer, but had got it from the other 2)
