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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Thomas Eaton

What links Diggers, Ranters and Muggletonians? The Weekend quiz

A JCB digger excavator earth mover at dawn in the scottish highlands with a fluffy cloud blue sky above, the rusty bucket is extended towards the viewer.
Unearthed the answer? Photograph: Getty Images

The questions

1 Who denied his divinity on 1 January 1946?
2 Originally, who would have received an “accolade”?
3 Used in sport, what is an Acme Thunderer?
4 Which novelist was an eminent lepidopterist?
5 Most Trojan asteroids share which planet’s orbit?
6 Edward Hopper’s House By The Railroad inspired which film property?
7 What was the focus of the campaign group ACT UP?
8 KonMari is a method of doing what?
What links:
9 Hannah Glasse; Eliza Acton; Elizabeth Raffald; Maria Rundell?
10 Joseph Merrick; Pontius Pilate; Andy Warhol; Nikola Tesla?
11 Huddersfield; Glasgow; London; Mytholmroyd?
12 1, 3, 6, 10, 15, 21, 28, 36, 45, etc?
13 The Family Of Love; Ranters; Diggers; Muggletonians; Fifth Monarchists?
14 Campbeltown; Highland; Islay; Lowland; Speyside?
15 Rocket plane (1); carrier aircraft (2); spacecraft (3); submersible (4); space station (5)?

Pop artist Andy Warhol holds a camera in New York in 1976
Andy Warhol in 1967. Photograph: AP

The answers

1 Japanese Emperor Hirohito.
2 Person being knighted.
3 Referee’s whistle.
4 Vladimir Nabokov.
5 Jupiter.
6 Bates Mansion in Psycho.
7 HIV/Aids.
8 Tidying/decluttering (Marie Kondo).
9 18th/19th-century cookery writers.
10 Stage and screen roles of David Bowie.
11 Birthplaces of recent poets laureate: Armitage; Duffy; Motion; Hughes.
12 Triangular numbers.
13 Radical religious groups in the English civil war era.
14 Scotch whisky regions.
15 Thunderbirds vehicles.

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