No cheating now The questions 1 Which diarist debuted in The Independent in 1995? 2 What are euro banknotes made from? 3 Which county adopted St Petroc’s Cross as its flag? 4 Which company buys about 15% of the UK’s annual potato crop? 5 What name is given to zero electrical resistance? 6 Pig farmer and businessman Jim Watkins is claimed to be behind which conspiracy theory? 7 Which singer is the Dowager Countess of Plauen? 8 In what decade was the last prosecution under the Witchcraft Act? What links: 9 Platypus; short-tailed shrew; slow loris; solenodon; vampire bat? 10 Kohs Block; Miller Analogies; Turing; Wonderlic? 11 Notting Hill; You’ve Got Mail; 84 Charing Cross Road? 12 Mukden incident; Gleiwitz incident; Gulf of Tonkin incident? 13 Rome; Viterbo; Orvieto; Avignon; Castel Gandolfo; Vatican City? 14 Rolling Stones; Lady Gaga; Judas Priest; Boyz II Men; Deacon Blue? 15 Strangeways prison; Holborn Bars; Girton College; Eaton Hall?
16.* The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine. *Accumulated total from the other quizzes.
1.Adrian Mole 2.Plastic 3.Georgia 4.Walkers 5.Power failure 6.Swine flu 7.Sandy Shaw 8.1950s 9..All found in Asia only. 10.Beers 11. Cameo appearance by Anthony Hopkins 12.All made up to start a war/battle 13.Summer residences of Popes 14.All done Super Bowl half time show 15.Places Jonathan Aitken has frequented. ps....all hopeless guesses.
The answers 1 Bridget Jones. 2 Cotton. 3 Devon. 4 McCain. 5 Superconductivity. 6 QAnon. 7 Anni-Frid from Abba. 8 1940s. 9 Venomous mammals. 10 Intelligence tests. 11 Films centred on bookshops. 12 War pretexts/false flag operations: Japanese invasion of Manchuria; Nazi invasion of Poland; US and Vietnam war. 13 Locations of papal palaces. 14 Acts named after other musicians’ songs: Muddy Waters; Queen; Bob Dylan; New Edition; Steely Dan. 15 Designed by Alfred Waterhouse.
