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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Thomas Eaton

What is the UK’s largest zoo? The Saturday quiz

A zebra stands in a snow-covered pen at a zoo in the UK
Zoo clue leaving you cold? Photograph: Max Nash/AFP/Getty Images

The questions

1 Who was the younger son of Richard IV and Gertrude of Flanders?
2 What is the UK’s largest zoo?
3 Which border is marked by a 6m-wide clearing called the Slash?
4 Winning aged 13, who is Britain’s youngest Olympic medallist?
5 What was last held on the Thames in 1814?
6 Which bird can beat its wings 200 times a second?
7 The M8 motorway links which two cities?
8 Which Daily Express columnist was dubbed the “first lady of Fleet Street”?
What links:
9
FeS2 and a Shakespearean warning to the Prince of Morocco?
10 Sarah Bernhardt; Indiana Jones; Freddy Krueger; Tom Landry?
11 Creation; Detroit Industry; Man at the Crossroads; The History of Mexico?
12 22nd and 24th; 45th and 47th?
13 Blue; harvest; hunter’s; long night; super; wolf?
14 American Sniper; Kismet; Green Zone; The Hurt Locker; Three Kings?
15 Electric; Finnegans Wake; first; heavy; neutral; Satyendra Nath Bose?

The answers

1 Prince Edmund (The Black Adder, first series of TV comedy).
2 Whipsnade.
3 US and Canada.
4 Sky Brown (skateboarding, 2021).
5 Frost fair.
6 Hummingbird (ruby-throated).
7 Glasgow and Edinburgh.
8 Jean Rook.
9 All that glisters is not gold (fool’s gold formula and line in The Merchant of Venice).
10 Real and fictional fedora hat wearers: Bernhardt played the eponymous Fédora in the play by Sardou.
11 Murals by Diego Rivera.
12 Non-consecutive US presidents: Grover Cleveland; Donald Trump.
13 Names given to types of moon.
14 Films set in Iraq.
15 Etymology/name origins of subatomic particles: electron; quark; proton; baryon; neutron; boson.

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