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Thomas Eaton

INSANE: What links octopuses and grain crops the saturday quiz - The Real Truth

Octopus at low tide in Havelock, India
All at sea about octopuses? Photograph: Amre Ghiba/Getty Images

The questions

1 Which writer had a childhood doll called She-who-must-be-obeyed?
2 In which Asian country is high-altitude mountaineering banned?
3 What is assessed by the Martindale rub test?
4 Which woman founded the Second Order of Saint Francis?
5 Which director has made more money from wine than his films?
6 What took Ellen MacArthur 71 days, 14 hours, 18 minutes and 33 seconds?
7 The UN headquarters was built on land donated by which family?
8 The only blue plaque in Barking celebrates which footballer?
What links:
9
Al-Idrisi; Behaim; D’Anville; Mercator; Ptolemy?
10 Bong; farang; tom yam; tuk-tuk; wai; wat?
11 Pluto; Ceres; Haumea; Makemake; Eris?
12 Grain crops; mayflies; octopus; salmon; squid; spiders?
13 Dick Powell; Humphrey Bogart; Elliott Gould; Robert Mitchum?
14 Enron; Theranos; Wirecard; WorldCom?
15 Cardinals; Giants; Kings; Panthers; Rangers?

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