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Thomas Eaton

What links butterfly, air, French and Glasgow? The Saturday quiz

Close-up of an orange and black comma butterfly on the orange centre of a pink cone flower
Baffled by the butterfly clue? Photograph: Rosemary Calvert/Getty Images

The questions

1 What did Thomas Austin notoriously introduce to Australia in 1859?
2 Which social media site’s founder is married to Serena Williams?
3 What shipping forecast area is named after a UK city?
4 What is the chemical formula for diamond?
5 Which literary character loved “life; London; this moment of June”?
6 Where did Eoka fight against British rule?
7 What contains 42 vowels and 56 consonants?
8 Which monarch commissioned and was depicted in the Wilton Diptych?
What links:
9
Do the Right Thing; Goodfellas; Moonstruck; Radio Days; Saturday Night Fever?
10 Lena; Mackenzie; Ob; Yenisey; Yukon?
11 Encyclopedia Britannica (2010); New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2001); Oxford English Dictionary (1989)?
12 Air; butterfly; chef’s; French, Glasgow?
13 Barbarian invasions; Christianity; homosexuality; lead poisoning; plague?
14 Sarazen; Hogan; Player; Nicklaus; Woods; McIlroy?
15 Land; canton; oblast; vármegye; województwo?

The answers

1 Rabbits.
2 Reddit (Alexis Ohanian).
3 Plymouth.
4 C.
5 Mrs Dalloway (Virginia Woolf).
6 Cyprus.
7 Scrabble (English-language set).
8 Richard II.
9 Films set in Brooklyn.
10 Major rivers flowing into the Arctic Ocean.
11 Last full printed editions of multi-volume reference books.
12 Types of “kiss”.
13 Causes variously proposed for the decline/fall of the western Roman empire.
14 Completed career grand slam in men’s golf.
15 Administrative divisions: Germany; Switzerland; Russia; Hungary; Poland.

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