Where is the Great Vine, planted in 1768? The Weekend quiz
The questions
1 What screen first was shared in 1896 by May Irwin and John Rice?
2 What word for rubbish originally meant animal entrails?
3 Where is the Great Vine, planted in 1768?
4 Which novelist was born in Dominica and died in Devon?
5 What currency is issued in the UK by Danske Bank?
6 What make up the Russell Group?
7 Which TV character was inspired by police officer Jackie Malton?
8 Where does Jimmy Anderson oppose Brian Statham?
What links:
9 Muharram; Tishrei; Martius; Vendémiaire?
10 Shed; well; ill; whore; hell; cant; id?
11 Octopus’s Garden and Don’t Pass Me By?
12 Podarge; Aello; Okypete; Celaeno?
13 Africa (19); Americas (13); Pacific (11); Asia (8); Europe (3)?
14 Wood; house; yellow-necked; harvest?
15 Oedipus; Kylo Ren; Lord Voldemort; Tyrion Lannister?
The answers
1 First kiss on film.
2 Garbage.
3 Hampton Court Palace.
4 Jean Rhys.
5 Northern Irish banknotes (along with Bank of Ireland, First Trust and Ulster Bank).
6 24 UK universities.
7 DCI Jane Tennison (in Lynda La Plante’s Prime Suspect).
8 Old Trafford cricket ground (names of ends).
9 First months of years: Islamic; (civil) Jewish; Roman; French Republican.
10 Add apostrophes to make abbreviations (she’d; we’ll; I’ll, etc).
11 Beatles songs solely written by Ringo Starr.
12 Harpies in Greco-Roman myth.
13 Commonwealth countries, by region.
14 UK mice species.
15 Fictional patricides: Sophocles play; Star Wars films; Harry Potter; Game Of Thrones.
