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    Diversions

    Sep 02, 2022 5 minutes

    QUIZ

    Thomas Eaton

    1 Which woman was made first secretary of state in the UK in 1968?

    2 Which country is the world’s biggest oil producer?

    3 What does the Kármán line define?

    4 Vectis was a Roman name for which island?

    5 What line precedes, “Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring”?

    6 Which re-enactment society is named after supporters of Charles II?

    7 Who choreographed Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring?

    8 What are Czech hedgehogs designed to stop?

    What links

    9 Burt Bacharach; Berwick Street in Soho, London; Rolls-Royce in a swimming pool?

    10 Red panda; musical drama; alloy of Cr; wildlife-based holiday?

    11 Uttarakhand; Jharkhand; Chhattisgarh?

    12 Moviola; KEM flatbed; Avid; Final Cut Pro?

    New Orleans; Ligny; Quatre

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