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From robot jockeys to Pete’s Super Submarines, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz1 Which stereotypical accent is based on a Robert Newton film role? 2 Which structure used to supply Nîmes with water? 3 Baker Thomas Dagger is said to have raised the alarm about what? 4 Who studied chimpanzees in Gombe? 5 Which Gulf sport uses robot jockeys? 6 The European “snake in the tunnel” was an agreement on what? 7 Severn is the largest class of boat in whose fleet? 8 Which fast food chain began life as Pete’s Super Submarines? What links: 9 St Martin’s, Canterbury; Bevis Marks, Aldgate; Shah Jahan, Woking? 10 Alcuin; Guy Fawkes; WH Auden; Judi Dench; Kate Atkinson? 11 Bletchley Park; Malcolm Little; Michael de Freitas; Twitter? 12 Kefir; kombucha; kvass; kumis; root beer; tepache? 13 Guy Mollet; Anthony Eden; David Ben-Gurion; Gamal Abdel Nasser? 14 Scout; masonic; dead fish; Paul Hollywood? 15 Congo (2018); Equatorial Guinea (2017); Angola (2007); Gabon (1975); Ecuador (1973)? Continue reading...