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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Thomas Eaton

Which saint is portrayed carrying her eyes on a plate? The Weekend quiz

What links three dogs; 48 people, eight boats, one monkey?
What links three dogs; 48 people, eight boats, one monkey? Photograph: Getty Images

The questions

1 Whose body was identified in 1967 by Guardian journalist Richard Gott?
2 Which dog is named from a Russian word for “fast”?
3 Which saint is portrayed carrying her eyes on a plate?
4 When would a pyroclastic surge be observed?
5 What makes up chapters 23-40 of the sixth book of the Mahabharata?
6 Which ex-Formula One driver is a four-time Paralympic gold medallist?
7 Lyman was the first name of which children’s author?
8 Which charity was founded in 1919 by Eglantyne Jebb?
What links:
9 Maxilla; mandible; vomer; zygomatic; palatine; lacrimal?
10 Forty-eight people; eight boats; three dogs; one monkey?
11 So Yeon Ryu; Sung Hyun Park; In Gee Chun; Inbee Park; IK Kim?
12 Bay; crack; goat; grey; white; osier?
13 Einstein; Akhnaten; Gandhi; Kepler; Galileo; Columbus; Disney?
14 Lesotho; Swaziland; New Zealand; Uruguay?
15 Pencils, Keswick; broken relationships, Zagreb; Abba, Stockholm?

Coloured pencils isolated on white background close up

The answers

1 Che Guevara.
2 Borzoi.
3 St Lucy.
4 Volcanic eruption.
5 Bhagavad Gita.
6 Alex Zanardi.
7 L Frank Baum.
8 Save the Children.
9 Facial bones.
10 Depicted in Seurat’s A Sunday On La Grande Jatte.
11 South Korean women golfers (all ranked in the world’s top 10).
12 Willow trees native to UK.
13 Subjects of Philip Glass operas.
14 Countries lying wholly south of the Tropic of Capricorn.
15 Museums.

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