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Welcome, 77 artists, 40 different points of Attica welcomes you by singing Erotokritos an epic romance written at 1713 by Vitsentzos Kornaros

Saturday, April 3, 2021

Which pirates were named after a type of barbecue? The Weekend quiz

From transplants to tenterhooks, test your knowledge with the Weekend quiz 1 Which 67-year-old, a niece of two kings, was executed in 1541? 2 What is the most common organ transplant? 3 What were tenterhooks originally used for? 4 Who wrote about her Wonderful Adventures… In Many Lands? 5 Which pirates were named after a type of barbecue? 6 The Harvard-Yale boat race takes place on what river? 7 What religious relic was the Holy Prepuce? 8 Steve Jobs ran which company from 1985-97? WHAT LINKS: 9 Egyptian hieroglyphics; Demotic Egyptian; Ancient Greek? 10 Cold Water; Happy Talk; Three Times A Lady; Mouldy Old Dough? 11 BG; CU; EXT; INT; LS; POV; VO; ZI? 12 Cannonball; Hispi; January King; Napa; Savoy? 13 Edinburgh; Goulburn, New South Wales; Stockwell; Colwyn Bay; Drogheda; Chester? 14 £20 a week; £17 a week in the summer (until 1961)? 15 Unhappiness; happiness; female child; male child; Ag; Au? Continue reading...


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