What links a worm and a whale's tail? The Weekend quiz
The questions
1 Who gave her 1987 Oscar acceptance speech in sign language?
2 In what decade was England ruled by major-generals?
3 Borley Rectory in Essex was once infamous as what?
4 Which gland secretes melatonin?
5 Which estuary is formed by the Paraná and Uruguay rivers?
6 Phil Chisnall in 1964 was the last transfer between which football clubs?
7 Sétanta was the birth name of which mythical hero?
8 What is the only female deer to typically grow antlers?
What links:
9 Camp Dubois, Illinois, and Fort Clatsop, Oregon (1804-06)?
10 Isabel Fitton; Arthur Griffith; August Jaeger; Caroline Elgar?
11 Ascension; Electrified; Above The Below; Vertigo; Buried Alive?
12 Parasitic worm; part of an anchor or whale’s tail; stroke of luck?
13 Kodkod; margay; oncilla; ocelot; jaguarundi?
14 Japanese mushroom; Nordic or Alpine; buried in AD79; US island state?
15 Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina; Trollope’s Ferdinand Lopez; Dickens’ James Carker?
The answers
1 Marlee Matlin (best actress, Children Of A Lesser God).
2 1650s (1655-57).
3 Most haunted house in England (according to psychic researcher Harry Price).
4 Pineal.
5 River Plate.
6 Manchester United and Liverpool.
7 Cú Chulainn.
8 Reindeer/caribou.
9 Start and end points of Lewis and Clark’s expedition.
10 Dedicatees of Elgar’s Enigma Variations: Ysobel; Troyte; Nimrod; CAE.
11 David Blaine stunts.
12 Fluke.
13 Smaller wild cats of South and Central America.
14 Double letter i: shiitake; skiing; Pompeii; Hawaii.
15 Literary characters killed by trains: Anna Karenina; The Prime Minister; Dombey and Son.
