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From Sue (dug up in South Dakota) to Byron’s memoirs, test your knowledge with the Weekend quiz
1 What is the criminal Aris Kindt doing in a Rembrandt painting?2 Who is the bestselling novelist of all time?3 What is Sue, dug up in South Dakota in 1990?4 Which ritual is performed by a mohel?5 What bird’s scientific name means “footless footless”?6 Which composer was a neighbour and protege of Oscar Hammerstein?7 Who would undertake the Kobayashi Maru test?8 What is bisected by the rabbit-proof fence?What links:9 Byron’s memoirs; Sylvia Plath’s novel Double Exposure; Philip Larkin’s diaries?10 Ilium; ischium; pubis?11 Greyhound; In Which We Serve; The Cruel Sea; Das Boot?12 Roberts and Brasier?13 Acute; grave; circumflex; cedilla; diaeresis?14 English; Irish; Irish Red & White; Gordon?15 Achaemenid; Sasanian; Safavid; Qajar; Pahlavi? Continue reading...