Saturday quiz answers: Armagnac, Victor Frankenstein and more

Here are the answers to the Saturday quiz. 1. Which US president vomited on the Japanese prime minister? Answer: George HW Bush (1992). 2. Which literary character was the “modern Prometheus”? Answer: Victor Frankenstein (subtitle of Mary Shelley novel). 3. What global event began in 2004 as the Bushy Park time trial?

Answer: Parkrun. 4. Which consecutive digits made up this year’s most perplexing meme? Answer: 6-7. 5. Which medieval coin was worth four pence? Answer: Groat. 6. What Gascon brandy is France’s oldest? Answer: Armagnac. 7. Which wild west gunfighter was a dentist? Answer: Doc Holliday.

8. Which element was used in rat poison and pre-X-ray “meals”? Answer: Barium. What links: 9. Appia; Aurelia; Cassia; Flaminia; Salaria; Tiburtina? Answer: Ancient roads that led to Rome. 10. Jerry and Mike; Carole and Gerry; Burt and Hal; Brian, Lamont and Eddie? Answer: Songwriting partnerships: Leiber and Stoller; King and Goffin; Bacharach and David; Holland-Dozier-Holland.

11. Of a large city (magenta); 1977 (grey); 1819-1901 (light blue); 360 degrees (yellow)? Answer: Tube lines: Metropolitan; Jubilee; Victoria; Circle. 12. Balearic; Cory’s; great; Manx; sooty? Answer: Shearwater birds. 13. Rania; Noor (Lisa); Muna (Toni); Dina; Zein? Answer: Queens/princess of Jordan.

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