Which pirates were named after a type of barbecue? The Weekend quiz
From transplants to tenterhooks, test your knowledge with the Weekend quiz
1 Which 67-year-old, a niece of two kings, was executed in 1541?
2 What is the most common organ transplant?
3 What were tenterhooks originally used for?
4 Who wrote about her Wonderful Adventures… In Many Lands?
5 Which pirates were named after a type of barbecue?
6 The Harvard-Yale boat race takes place on what river?
7 What religious relic was the Holy Prepuce?
8 Steve Jobs ran which company from 1985-97?
What links:
9 Egyptian hieroglyphics; Demotic Egyptian; Ancient Greek?
10 Cold Water; Happy Talk; Three Times A Lady; Mouldy Old Dough?
11 BG; CU; EXT; INT; LS; POV; VO; ZI?
12 Cannonball; Hispi; January King; Napa; Savoy?
13 Edinburgh; Goulburn, New South Wales; Stockwell; Colwyn Bay; Drogheda; Chester?
14 £20 a week; £17 a week in the summer (until 1961)?
15 Unhappiness; happiness; female child; male child; Ag; Au?
from The Guardian https://ift.tt/31HPhR1
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