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    Diversions

    Mar 18, 2022 4 minutes

    QUIZ

    Thomas Eaton

    1 Which writer’s heart was rumoured to have been eaten by a cat?

    2 Who contested the videotape format war?

    3 The Lambert Centre memorial marks the middle of what?

    4 Who was the first English monarch to reign for more than 50 years?

    5 In Japan, fugu is what hazardous delicacy?

    6 What is the UK’s most-visited museum?

    7 “Grey goo” is shorthand for the hypothetical threat from what?

    8 What is the largest US city founded in the 20th century?

    What links: 9

    Rome, 44BC; Egypt, 48BC; Anatolia, 53BC?

    10 Mary Pickford; Charlie Chaplin; Douglas Fairbanks; DW Griffith?

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