Off Topic The Saturday Quiz

It’s a great name isn’t it

 

1 2 5 and 7

2 is close to my heart

 

The answers
1 Fruit flies (Drosophilia).
2 Australia (decimal currency introduced).
3 Jesus’s cross (in the synoptic Gospels).
4 Barbara Cartland (Raine Spencer).
5 Colombia.
6 Nelson Mandela (with the Special AKA)
7 Forest Green Rovers.
8 Circus.
9 “Venus” statues found there.
10 Singers with Queen.
11 Named in Cambridge colleges: Queens’; Lucy Cavendish; Hughes Hall.
12 Safety devices in Formula One cars.
13 Long arms: Yuri Dolgoruky (lit. the long armed); Mr Tickle; Stretch Armstrong.
14 Provinces of the Roman empire.
15 Wore black: Woman in Black (Susan Hill story); Man in Black singer; Black Knight golfer; All Black rugby player.