Diversions

QUIZ

Thomas Eaton

The questions

1 Which film’s working title was 1924 Runners?

2 Whose statue holds the message “Courage calls to courage everywhere”?

3 What lies between Toulon and La Spezia?

4 Which game is run by a boxman, stickman and two dealers?

5 Which novel begins in a Martello tower?

6 What is the geographical significance of 40,075km (or 24,901 miles)?

7 Who is the longest-serving actor in a TV soap?

8 Which toy company was founded by the Hassenfeld siblings?

What links:

9 48 castles; 45 vineyards; 112 boroughs; c. 6,000 mills?

10 Jack Walsh; Django Freeman; Colt Seavers; Boba Fett?

11 Temminck’s stint; knot; dunlin; whimbrel; ruff?

12 1823 policy statement; 1930s shanty towns; 2010 health reforms?

Reuben; Simeon;