Questions
- Which mountain range contains the world's second-highest peak?
- Which pioneer of conceptualism left art to play chess?
- Who is the only Jesuit to have become pope?
- Which prehistoric shark reached about 18 metres in length?
- In which South American country is baseball the national sport?
- Which international news organisation is headquartered in Qatar?
- Following a scandal, who changed her family's name to Holland?
- Zener cards are used to assess what ability?
What links these items?
- Banjul; Nassau; San Salvador?
- Evert (5); Jaeger; Mandlíková; Graf; Garrison?
- Corned beef sandwich; golf balls; harmonica; postal covers?
- Altar Stone; Aubrey Holes; Heel Stone; Slaughter Stone; Station Stones?
- Squiggly, Glasgow; Mathematical, Cambridge; Winking Eye, Newcastle?
- Nimue and Viviane; Florence Nightingale; Elaine of Astolat for Tennyson; Bennett’s Mary Shepherd?
- 1; 4; 3; 11; 15; 13; 17; 43?
Answers
- Karakoram Range (K2).
- Marcel Duchamp.
- Pope Francis.
- Megalodon.
- Venezuela.
- Al Jazeera.
- Constance Lloyd (wife of Oscar Wilde).
- Extrasensory perception (including telepathy and clairvoyance).
- Capitals of countries with a definite article in their name: The Gambia, The Bahamas, El Salvador.
- All lost to Martina Navratilova in Wimbledon singles finals.
- All were smuggled into space on Nasa missions.
- Parts of the Stonehenge site.
- Nicknames of bridges.
- All are connected to "The Lady": the Lady of the Lake (whose names include Nimue and Viviane); the Lady with the Lamp (Florence Nightingale); the inspiration for Tennyson's The Lady of Shalott (Elaine of Astolat); and the Lady in the Van (Bennett's Mary Shepherd).
- Numbers with an ascending number of letters in their English names (from three to ten).
