What connects Jane Jacobs and Georges-Eugène Housman? Saturday competition | Quiz and trivia games
Questions
1 Which seabird has made the longest migration of any animal?
2 Who owns property in the Romanian villages of Viscri and Zalanpatak?
3 What crime against orthography did Pak Dharma pioneer?
4 The xenomorph is the antagonist in which film series?
5 Which organ contains the islets of Langerhans?
6 Who was the ITN news anchor who coined the term “body fascism” in 1980?
7 How to join the 92 Club?
8 Which of the two Shakespeare plays is mainly set in Türkiye?
What links:
9 Lucio Costa; Georges Eugene Haussmann; Jane Jacobs; Robert Moses?
10 Mikaela Shiffrin (101) and Ingmar Stenmark (86)?
11 1951 Academy Award-winning song; Dali’s Self-Portrait, 1954; glass onion; The Da Vinci Code; No hok?
12 Gross Buchsi; Bean Grit; mons meg; Baumhardt von Steyr; Tsar Pushka?
13 Kenny; Beric Dondarrion; Buffy Summers; Phil Coulson?
14 Blooot. Rangpur. tangelo. ugly. Yuzu?
15 X(age); 25th (Hajj); LAM (AU); LX(c); LXX(point)?
Answers
1 Arctic tern.
2 King Charles III.
3 Heavy metal diacritic sign (in Blue Öyster Cult).
4 Alien.
5 Pancreas.
6 Anna Ford.
7 You can attend a match at all 92 Premier League and Football League stadiums in England and Wales.
8 comedy of errors; Troilus and Cressida.
9 Urban planners and theorists: Brasilia; Paris; He wrote “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”; New York.
10 Most successful F/M alpine skier (based on World Cup race wins).
11 Featured/referred to the Mona Lisa: Mona Lisa; A self-portrait like the Mona Lisa; movie 2022; Dan Brown’s novel; Marcel Duchamp’s artwork
12 Famous historical cannon/shells.
13 TV Characters “Revived”: South Park; game of thrones; Buffy the Vampire Slayer; Shield agents.
14 Hybrid fruits.
15 Traditional Wedding Anniversary Gifts, Roman Numerals/Chemical Elements: 10 (Tin); 25 (Silver); 50 (gold); 60 (carbon/diamond); 70 (platinum).