Saturday Quiz: From Climate Instability to Inca Language

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Who warned of 'climate instability' in 1988? The Saturday quiz

From Dunbar and Shakespeare to Free the Weatherfield One, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz.

The questions

1. How many times does the sun rise each year at the north pole?
2. Which board game inspired the creation of QR codes?
3. Five of the six cataracts of the Nile are in which country?
4. In what decade did Germany print a 100-trillion Mark note?
5. Who warned of a “global heat trap” and “climate instability” in 1988?
6. Which rhythm section had the surnames Dunbar and Shakespeare?
7. Free the Weatherfield One was a campaign to liberate whom?
8. What was the main language of the Inca empire?

What links:

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9. Barringer, US; Chicxulub, Mexico; Vredefort, South Africa; Wolfe Creek, Australia?
10. Smokin’ Joe; Fighting Marine; Neon Leon; Easton Assassin?
11. American Legion; Theodor Escherich; Daniel Salmon; staff; twisted berry?
12. Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr; Larry Bell, Dion DiMucci and Bob Dylan?
13. Bass beer; bleaching allowed; major seventh chord; youth hostel?
14. Cole Allen; Thomas Crooks; Ryan Routh?
15. 1558 (25); 1689 (26); 1702 (37); 1837 (18); 1952 (25)?

Treading water over the Nile clue? Photograph: Adam Jones/Getty Images

The answers

1. Once.
2. Go.
3. Sudan.
4. 1920s.
5. Margaret Thatcher.
6. Sly and Robbie.
7. Deirdre Rachid (in Coronation Street).
8. Quechua.
9. Meteor/asteroid impact craters.
10. Nicknames of boxers who defeated Muhammad Ali: Joe Frazier; Ken Norton; Leon Spinks; Larry Holmes (Trevor Berbick didn’t have one).
11. Etymology of types of bacteria: legionella; E coli; salmonella; bacillus (Latin); streptococcus (Greek).
12. People on Beatles’ Sgt Pepper album cover who are still alive.
13. Represented by a triangle symbol: brewery logo; laundry label; jazz notation; on OS map.
14. Alleged attempted assassins of Donald Trump.
15. Queens: accession year (age on accession): Elizabeth I; Mary II; Anne; Victoria; Elizabeth II.

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