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QUIZ

Thomas Eaton

1 Preached in 1631, Death’s Duel was whose last sermon?

2 When do US television advertising rates reach $7m for a 30-second slot?

3 Which country conducted 17 nuclear tests in Africa?

4 Which diarist was born on 2 April 1967?

5 What is a fer de lance?

6 Who is the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques?

7 Which singer changed her name after an error in Mersey Beat paper?

8 Which British fabric pattern features a Persian teardrop motif?

What links:

9 Helen Mirren; Golda Rosheuvel; India Amarteifio?

10 Kun; sama; san; sensei; senpai?

11 Bashar al-Assad; Salvador Allende; Hastings Banda; Ewa Kopacz?

12 Bonnybridge, Scotland; Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk; Todmorden, Yorkshire?

13 Julia by Sandra Newman; Beasts of England by Adam Biles?

14 Tennis (1988); skeleton (2002); rugby and golf (2016)?

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