Which bird was on the farthing coin? The Weekend quiz
The questions
1 Whose Rabbit sculpture bought for $91m?
2 What time period for the present geological epoch was coined in 2000?
3 Which Nobel Prize winner graduated final June?
4 Which nationwide park is known as after Pen y Fan and its neighbours?
5 Whose Chronicles was the most important supply for Shakespeare’s historical past performs?
6 Peter Costanzo infamously launched whom to Twitter?
7 Which bird was once on the farthing coin?
8 What hat solely has 7.5% of its nominal capability?
What hyperlinks:
9 Oglala Sioux chief; Patrick Macnee; rapper Megan Pete; £25?
10 Good; Bad; Wonderful; Merciless?
11 Circe; House of Names; The Penelopiad; A Thousand Ships?
12 Sir Henry Morgan; Melinda Lou Thomas; Harland Sanders?
13 Chiffonade; brunoise; julienne; allumette; batonnet?
14 Condemned (1); meets mom (4); nailed on cross (11); laid in tomb (14)?
15 Space Oddity; Killer; Unchained Melody; Bohemian Rhapsody?
The solutions
1 Jeff Koons (document for a residing artist).
2 Anthropocene.
3 Malala Yousafzai (PPE, Oxford).
4 Brecon Beacons.
5 Raphael Holinshed.
6 Donald Trump.
7 Wren.
8 Ten-gallon hat (holds round three quarts).
9 Equine names: Crazy Horse; Steed in The Avengers; Megan Thee Stallion; pony.
10 Nicknames of parliaments (held 1376-1388).
11 Recent retellings of Greek myths: Madeline Miller; Colm Tóibín; Margaret Atwood; Natalie Haynes.
12 Real individuals on foods and drinks branding: Captain Morgan rum; Wendy’s; KFC.
13 Culinary knife cuts.
14 Stations of the Cross.
15 No 1 hits by which the title isn’t talked about in the lyrics: Bowie; Adamski; Righteous Brothers et al; Queen.
