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    Diversions

    Jan 05, 2024 5 minutes

    QUIZ

    Thomas Eaton

    1 Who was the first living person to appear on Roman coins?

    2 Which art historian won the Booker prize?

    3 What is Britain’s last surviving Georgian cloth hall?

    4 What did Switzerland begin adding to salt in 1922?

    5 Which politician wielded a chainsaw on the campaign trail this year?

    6 1.618 is the approximate value of what number?

    7 Visible loss of contact and bent knees are offences in what sport?

    8 What, about 900,000 years old, were found at Happisburgh in Norfolk?

    What links:

    9 Rizz; AI; authentic; hallucinate?

    10 Christine Sinclair and Cristiano Ronaldo?

    11 Abbotsford; Bateman’s; Greenway; Max Gate?

    12 Celia Birtwell (frequently); Divine; Jacob Rothschild; Barry Humphries?

    13 Millennium Falcon; Pumpkin Island, Queensland; Francis Drake’s Sampford Manor?

    Martin Bell; Harland Sanders; Kirk Stevens; Tom

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