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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Thomas Eaton

What links The Cow, The Cattle, The Bee and The Spider? The Saturday quiz

Two Holstein-Friesian cows in field, looking into the camera
Chewing over the cow conundrum? Photograph: Peter Cade/Getty Images

The questions

1 In 1946, where did the monthly inflation rate reach 41.9 quadrillion per cent?
2 Which mainland English county has two separate coastlines?
3 Before 1827, theft of more than 12 pence was defined as what?
4 Who is the only UK prime minister with a PhD?
5 Which predatory mammals were released in the Cairngorms this year?
6 At what football ground are sweets thrown into the crowd before matches?
7 Which US female lineage-based group is known as DAR?
8 What are the 110 Messier objects?
What links:
9
Locke; Player; Els; Oosthuizen?
10 The Cow; The Cattle; The Bee; The Ant; The Spider; The Elephant?
11 Photoelectric effect; Brownian motion; special relativity; mass-energy equivalence?
12 Dobong; Gangnam; Jung; Songpa (and 21 others)?
13 Harold II, 1066; William II, 1100; Richard I, 1199; future Henry V, 1403?
14 Catherine Parr; Anne Dacier; Constance Garnett; Anthea Bell?
15 Shakespearean lovers (10 and 18); dances (6 and 20); month (14); a southern African people (26)?

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