From Le Grand K to the Spirit of Troy, test your knowledge with the Weekend quiz

The questions



1 Whose final message was, “Come on. Big village. Be quick. Bring packs”?

2 What is the ninth largest object in the solar system?

3 Kept in a French vault, what is Le Grand K?

4 Which musical couple are buried at Wahnfried?

5 What pet is Carassius auratus?

6 Which order was suppressed in 1312 by Pope Clement V?

7 The Spirit of Troy is the marching band of which institution?

8 In a Dostoevsky novel, who is Prince Myshkin?

What links:

9 Bass; Society; Tuamotu; Gambier; Marquesas; Austral?

10 Berthe Morisot; Marie Bracquemond; Eva Gonzalès; Mary Cassatt?

11 Braunau am Inn; Predappio; Gori; Shaoshan?

12 Lord Erroll’s murder; racing in Hong Kong; Sally Wainwright drama?

13 Herostratus; Robert Hubert; Marinus van der Lubbe?

14 Rothera; Halley VI; Bird Island; King Edward Point; Signy?

15 Okarito; North Island brown; Southern brown; Great and Little spotted?

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The answers

1 George Custer.

2 Ganymede (moon of Jupiter).

3 International prototype of the kilogram.

4 Richard and Cosima Wagner.

5 Goldfish.

6 Knights Templar.

7 University of Southern California.

8 The Idiot.

9 Island groups making up French Polynesia.

10 Female impressionist painters.

11 Dictators’ birthplaces: Hitler; Mussolini; Stalin; Mao.

12 Happy Valley: in Kenya’s HV set; HV racecourse; HV TV series.

13 Accused arsonists: Temple of Artemis, Ephesus; Great Fire of London; Reichstag.

14 UK Antarctic research stations.

15 Kiwi species.