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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Thomas Eaton

The world’s largest comic convention is held in which city? The Saturday quiz

A figure dressed as Spider-Man gazes at framed comic covers including Fantastic Four, at an exhibition on Stan Lee
Got your spidey-senses tingling over the comic convention clue? Photograph: Jerod Harris/Getty Images

The questions

1 Emilio Palma was, in 1978, the first person to be born where?
2 Which series of tasks were imposed by King Eurystheus?
3 What gen Z retort to the old was popularised by journalist Taylor Lorenz?
4 “For Gallantry” and “We Also Serve” are written on which medal?
5 Which province of Pakistan has a population of about 130 million?
6 The world’s largest comic convention is held in which city?
7 Who got married in Gibraltar on 20 March 1969?
8 What was the writing system of ancient Mesopotamia?
What links:
9
Dryden; Shadwell; Tate; Rowe; Eusden?
10 Iqaluit; Yellowknife; Whitehorse?
11 Button; Grecian; hawk; Nubian; Roman; snub?
12 Bin (TV baking); blood (rugby); pizza (football); water (politics)?
13 12 (20); 3 (6); 6 (3); 9 (11)?
14 Bulbophyllum orchids; Rafflesia; Stapelia; titan arum?
15 Wilhelmina; Juliana; Beatrix?

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