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QUIZ

Thomas Eaton

1 The King’s Guide to the Sands assists with crossing what?

2 What does the horned lizard squirt from its eye?

3 Rishi Sunak is the first UK prime minister to have which degree?

4 Synonymicon is another name for what type of book?

5 Which British explorer disappeared in the Amazon in 1925?

6 Where do the presidential guard wear a fustanella?

7 Which sailing trophy is known as the Auld Mug?

8 Whose 10th symphony was assembled by Barry Cooper?

What links:

9 Yorkshire; Virgin Mary; student anti-Nazi movement?

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