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Diversions

QUIZ

Thomas Eaton

1 Which Eurostar destination is named from the French for “island”?

2 What is covered by a cloth called the kiswa?

3 Which musician wrote Orlam, a verse novel in Dorset dialect?

4 What ubiquitous items are made by De La Rue?

5 Which ship was renamed Panteleimon in 1905?

6 The A303 passes by which ancient monument?

7 Who is the only player with 100 Premier League goals for two clubs?

8 The main asteroid belt lies between which planets’ orbits?

What links:

9 Waugh and Gardner in 1928; Lautner and Dome in 2022?

10 Heseltine; Prescott; Clegg; Raab; Coffey; Raab again?

11 Ciambella; Bundt; Gugelhupf; Savarin?

Ariane Matiakh; Marin Alsop; Alice Farnham; JoAnn Falletta?

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