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QUIZ

Thomas Eaton

1 Whose murder in 1610 was the first to be called an assassination?

2 Who wrote Twilight fan fiction under the name Snowqueens Icedragon?

4 What is Britain’s most colourful corvid?

5 Which African language is named from the Arabic for “coastal”?

6 A cosmic year is the time taken to do what?

7 Which classic dystopian film is set in 2022?

8 Iznik ware came from which country?

What links:

9 Miriam; Deborah; Huldah; Noadiah; Anna?

10 Eric Spear; Simon May; Tony Hatch?

Luvironza river, Burundi, and Lake Tana, Ethiopia?

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