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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Thomas Eaton

What links elephants to scorpions and blue sharks? The Saturday Quiz

Group of elephants walking on a dirt road, Oshikoto Region, Namibia
The head of the herd was calling … Photograph: Claudio Braslavsky/Getty Images/500px

The questions

1 Which Paul Newman character ate around 3,750 calories in an hour?
2 Which state was established by the Lateran Treaty?
3 Currently Kathleen Jamie, what is the Scots Makar?
4 Lucifers and Prometheans were early types of what items?
5 What did Lloyd George call “Mr Balfour’s poodle”?
6 Which sportsperson carries a coffin?
7 What is Dorset’s celebrated tombolo?
8 Which big cat’s name comes from the Tupi-Guarani language?
What links:
9
Heracles; David; Abishai; Jack?
10 Coelacanths; Elephants; Atlas Lions; Scorpions; Blue Sharks?
11 Princess Beatrice (b 1857); Jean-Claude Duvalier; Frances Houseman?
12 Malaysia (Borneo); Papua New Guinea (New Guinea); East Timor (Timor)?
13 Shiva; New Zealand tuatara; Blinky in The Simpsons?
14 From Here to Eternity; East Is East; Power of the Dog; If … ?
15 Grey; Viviani; Sazonov; von Jagow; Berchtold?

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