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    Diversions

    Oct 22, 2021 5 minutes

    QUIZ

    Thomas Eaton

    1 Which British scientist inspired a Barbie doll?

    2 Which country has made bitcoin legal tender? @kingjames? protected by the

    Theodosian Walls?

    5 Which writer’s only first-class cricket wicket was WG Grace?

    6 What was first sold in the UK as the Stowaway?

    7 Which geological era are we living in?

    8 Which folk rock group was named after a house in Muswell Hill, London?

    What links:

    9 James VI and I; Anne; Edward VII; Elizabeth II?

    10 Cop; Hollywood; Zombie; Nomad; La La?

    11 Division (Johann Rahn); infinity (John Wallis); equals (Robert Recorde)?

    12 Arak; ouzo; pastis; raki; sambuca?

    13 Carpenter; Cooper; Glenn; Grissom; Schirra; Shepard; Slayton?

    14 Sue Perkins; Griff Rhys Jones; Kim Appleby?

    15 Dedans; tambour; grille; hazard the door?

    PUZZLES

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