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    Diversions

    Jul 29, 2022 5 minutes

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    QUIZ

    Thomas Eaton

    1 Which rebel was “indeed a tiler of houses, an ungracious patron”?

    2 On film, who are Bob, Stuart, Kevin and Otto?

    3 What is England’s largest landlocked county?

    4 Whitehall 1212 was the original telephone number for what?

    5 What began with the Nile’s waters turning to blood?

    6 Where did the colonels take power in 1967?

    7 La Brea Tar Pits is a palaeontological site in which city?

    8 Which star of The Big Bang Theory has a PhD in neuroscience?

    What links:

    9 Mainland; Yell; Unst; Fetlar; Bressay?

    10 Patrick Mouratoglou; Marián Vajda; Lennart Bergelin; Toni Nadal?

    11 Snake; jellyfish; racehorse; hunting dog?

    Columbia; Challenger;

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