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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Thomas Eaton

What links cricket clothing, Delta music and Polanski? The Saturday quiz

A cricket batsman in white uniform and pads stands at the crease beside stumps on a pitch
On a sticky wicket with the cricketing clue? Photograph: Connect Images/Getty Images

The questions

1 What is the only Asian country wholly in the southern hemisphere?
2 Which cross-Channel service ended in 2000 after 32 years?
3 What 1957 novel was typed on a 37-metre-long scroll?
4 Which two sportswear giants are based in the Bavarian town of Herzogenaurach?
5 Which singer and activist was nicknamed Mama Africa?
6 Pfas are popularly known as what by environmentalists?
7 A pair of Aris Isotoner Lights gloves played a central role in what event?
8 About which operation did Churchill say “wars are not won by evacuations”?
What links:
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Jonathan and Oscar Cainer; Debbie Frank; Sally Kirkman; Shelley von Strunckel?
10 Cricket clothing; Lucas and Polanski; Delta music; NZ rugby?
11 Syra (I); Philometor Soteira (II and III); Tryphaena (V); Thea Philopator (VII)?
12 Regnum defende and semper occultus?
13 Black Dyke; Brighouse and Rastrick; Cory; Grimethorpe Colliery?
14 Benjamin Franklin; Michelle Kwan; Clare Boothe Luce; Shirley Temple?
15 Arabic (Roman); Dutch (Calicut); Portuguese (Peru); French and Turkish (Indian)?

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