What links Durendal to Caliburn? The Weekend quiz

Rapper Tramar Dillard: what links him with playwright Thomas Williams and archaeologist Henry Jones Jr? Photograph: Getty

The questions

1 What happened in Britain between 3-13 September 1752?
2 Which hashtag was created by Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi?
3 Which first was disputed by Frederick Cook and Robert Peary?
4 Who wondered “Do I dare to eat a peach”?
5 For what do Parisians use the Zouave statue on Pont de l’Alma?
6 What does a Rorschach test consist of?
7 THC is the active ingredient of which drug?
8 Wadi Rum is a desert region in which country?
What links:
9 Belfast City Airport and Madeira International Airport?
10 Pierre-Joseph Proudhon; Peter Kropotkin; Emma Goldman; Colin Ward?
11 Webster’s Autocentre; The Kabin; Audrey’s; Baldwin’s Casuals?
12 Fair Youth (1-126); Dark Lady (127-154)?
13 Playwright Thomas Williams; rapper Tramar Dillard; archaeologist Henry Jones Jr?
14 Durendal; Joyeuse; Tizona; Gram; Caliburn?
15 Denver Art Museum; Imperial War Museum North; Jewish Museum, Berlin?

Wadi Rum. Photograph: Getty Images

The answers

1 Nothing (dates missed out in adoption of Gregorian calendar).
2 #BlackLivesMatter.
3 First to the North Pole.
4 J. Alfred Prufrock (T.S. Eliot poem).
5 Measure height of the Seine / monitor flooding.
6 Inkblots.
7 Cannabis (tetrahydrocannabinol).
8 Jordan.
9 Named after (Man Utd) footballers: George Best and Cristiano Ronaldo.
10 Anarchists.
11 Businesses in Coronation Street.
12 Addressees of Shakespeare’s sonnets.
13 US state names: Tennessee Williams; Flo Rida; Indiana Jones.
14 Legendary swords: Roland’s; Charlemagne’s; El Cid’s; Norse myth; Arthurian myth.
15 Designed by Daniel Libeskind.