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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Thomas Eaton

What is the UK’s heaviest and fastest flying duck? The Saturday quiz

Three kitsch retro flying duck ornaments, mounted on a textured yellow wall
Ruffling feathers with the duck clue? Photograph: Peter Dazeley/Getty Images

The questions

1 Slovenia and Venezuela are the first two countries to lose all their what?
2 Which celebrated rock has 1620 carved on to it?
3 What is the UK’s heaviest and fastest flying duck?
4 Which royal consort was born in the same bedroom as Queen Victoria?
5 Skaldic poetry was written in what language?
6 Which international organisation was dissolved on 19 April 1946?
7 Who has statues in Middlesbrough, Derby and Nottingham?
8 Which irrational number is represented by the Greek letter phi?
What links:
9
Cheddar Man; Dead Sea Scrolls; Altamira and Lascaux art; olm salamander?
10 Ash Dykes; Ed Stafford; Ed Talone; Levison Wood?
11 Bat and Ball; Blackrod; Hall i’ th’ Wood; Whatstandwell?
12 US citizen; Stem master’s degree; two years’ professional experience; pass physical test?
13 Ain’t Misbehavin’; Blueberry Hill; Hound Dog (originally); The Twist; Hypnotize?
14 Maia; Peter; Chris Adams; Kikuchiyo; Abbie Hoffman?
15 Profiles in Courage; Brave New World; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe?

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