What links Joni Mitchell, Ian Dury and Frida Kahlo? The Saturday quiz
From ancient China and Paris’s Latin Quarter to ‘Han shot first’, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz
The questions
1 The slogan “Han shot first” protested against the re-editing of which film?
2 The boundaries of the North, East and West Ridings met at which city?
3 What is the smallest species of UK crow?
4 Which notorious Disney film was based on stories by Joel Chandler Harris?
5 Which precursor of the UN was established by the treaty of Versailles?
6 Rama IX ruled which country from 1946 to 2016?
7 Which singer and pianist was born Eunice Waymon?
8 What military force was the BAOR?
What links:
9 Ancient China; California; Nagasaki; Latin Quarter of Paris; Rome?
10 Alert (possible); warning (expected); severe warning (risk to life and significant disruption)?
11 Covalent; ionic; metallic?
12 Bakelite; french fries; internal combustion engine; saxophone; standard map projection?
13 Ade Adepitan; Ian Dury; Frida Kahlo; Joni Mitchell; Itzhak Perlman; FDR?
14 Bligh’s ship; Olympus Mons location; Panthera leo; Via Lactea?
15 Isabella of France and Margaret of Anjou; Chester Burnett; Jordan Belfort?
The answers
1 Star Wars.
2 York.
3 Jackdaw.
4 Song of the South.
5 League of Nations.
6 Thailand.
7 Nina Simone.
8 British Army of the Rhine.
9 Settings of Puccini operas: Turandot; La fanciulla del West; Madama Butterfly; La bohème; Tosca.
10 Levels of flood warnings in the UK.
11 Types of chemical bonds.
12 Belgian inventions (some contested).
13 Polio survivors.
14 Chocolate bars: Bounty; Mars; Lion; Milky Way.
15 Wolf bynames: both She-Wolf of France; musician Howlin’ Wolf; trader Wolf of Wall Street.