What links butterfly, air, French and Glasgow? The Saturday quiz
1 What did Thomas Austin notoriously introduce to Australia in 1859?2 Which social media site's founder is married to Serena Williams?3 What shipping forecast area is named after a UK city?4 What is the chemical formula for diamond?5 Which literary character loved 'life; London; this moment of June'?6 Where did Eoka fight against British rule?7 What contains 42 vowels and 56 consonants?8 Which monarch commissioned and was depicted in the Wilton Diptych?What links:
9 Do the Right Thing; Goodfellas; Moonstruck; Radio Days; Saturday Night Fever?10 Lena; Mackenzie; Ob; Yenisey; Yukon?11 Encyclopedia Britannica (2010); New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2001); Oxford English Dictionary (1989)?12 Air; butterfly; chef's; French, Glasgow?13 Barbarian invasions; Christianity; homosexuality; lead poisoning; plague?14 Sarazen; Hogan; Player; Nicklaus; Woods; McIlroy?15 Land; canton; oblast; vármegye; województwo?
1 Rabbits.2 Reddit (Alexis Ohanian).3 Plymouth.4 C.5 Mrs Dalloway (Virginia Woolf).6 Cyprus.7 Scrabble (English-language set).8 Richard II.9 Films set in Brooklyn.10 Major rivers flowing into the Arctic Ocean.11 Last full printed editions of multi-volume reference books.12 Types of 'kiss'.13 Causes variously proposed for the decline/fall of the western Roman empire.14 Completed career grand slam in men's golf.15 Administrative divisions: Germany; Switzerland; Russia; Hungary; Poland.
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