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From forcing sheds to Frida Kahlo: test your knowledge with the Weekend quiz
1 What is the architectural legacy of the 1889 Exposition Universelle?2 What is grown in forcing sheds?3 For string players, what command contradicts arco?4 Which UK mammals are grey or harbour?5 Who did Fanny Sunesson partner to sporting glory?6 What name was adopted by the general Caius Martius?7 Which country was formerly British Honduras?8 What word for a flatterer literally means “fig shower”?What links:9 CH; CG; FB; LC; PH; PO; TH; W?10 The Drifters; the Shadows; the Young Ones?11 Bufo bufo; meles meles; talpa europaea; arvicola amphibius?12 Leslie Mitchell (BBC and ITV); Paul Coia (Channel 4); David Vickery (Channel 5)?13 Atlantic and Pacific Oceans (south of Cape Horn)?14 Eva Lovelace; Christina Drayton; Eleanor of Aquitaine; Ethel Thayer?15 Van Gogh and Gauguin, Arles; William Morris, Bexleyheath; Frida Kahlo, Mexico City? Continue reading...