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    Diversions

    Dec 03, 2021 5 minutes

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    QUIZ

    Thomas Eaton

    1 What was stolen from China by botanist Robert Fortune?

    2 Which palace is known as the Viennese Versailles?

    3 Carolyn Shoemaker found 32 examples of what?

    4 Who were Spengler, Venkman and Stantz in a 1980s film?

    5 Reintroduced to the UK, what is the heaviest flying bird?

    6 Who changed his middle name from Winston to Ono?

    7 The Kalevala is the national epic of which country?

    8 The torch relay was devised for which Olympic s?

    What links:

    9 Dijon department; rode through Coventry; Spartan king; mother of God?

    10 Motion; planetary motion; thermodynamics; robotics?

    Darién Gap; Bering Strait; Bosphorus; Suez Canal?

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