What links Martina Navratilova and Alastair Cook? The Saturday quiz
The questions
1 What makes up an estimated 68% of the universe?
2 Which great of English literature wrote novels in his third language?
3 Two gaurs feature on the logo of which drink?
4 Which TV personality founded the Women’s Equality party?
5 Which transport service is run by Waymo in San Francisco and Phoenix?
6 What is Nato’s second largest army?
7 Which song features a whaling ship called the Billy o’ Tea?
8 Fig trees are pollinated by which insects?
What links:
9 Alastair Cook; Phil Mickelson; Martina Navratilova; Mark Williams?
10 Bridewell; Greenwich; Nonsuch; Richmond; Whitehall?
11 Clint Eastwood; Sugar, Sugar; the Chipmunk Song?
12 Ruth Handler’s children and Theodore Roosevelt?
13 Rosh Hashanah; Shogatsu; Songkran; Nowruz?
14 Anne Bonny; Mary Critchett; Mary Read; Rachel Wall?
15 Banksy’s Girl with Balloon; Cai Guo-Qiang’s Sky Ladder; Tinguely’s Homage to New York?
The answers
1 Dark energy.
2 Joseph Conrad (after Polish and French).
3 Red Bull.
4 Sandi Toksvig.
5 Driverless taxis.
6 Turkey (after the US).
7 Wellerman.
8 Wasps.
9 Sporting left-handers: cricket; golf; tennis; snooker.
10 Lost Tudor palaces.
11 Songs by virtual bands: Gorillaz; the Archies; Alvin and the Chipmunks.
12 Gave names to toys: Barbie and Ken; teddy bears.
13 New Year: Jewish; Japanese; Thai; Persian.
14 Female pirates.
15 Artworks that self-destructed.
