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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Thomas Eaton

Which crustacean forms most of the blue whale’s diet? The Saturday quiz

The tail of a blue whale, Gulf of California.
Blue clue cracked? Photograph: Fotosearch/Getty Images/Fotosearch RF

The questions

1 The world’s richest person, Bernard Arnault, is head of which company?
2 What disrupted game three of the 1989 World Series in San Francisco?
3 Which period is known as the quattrocento?
4 Who coined the term “birth control” in her magazine The Woman Rebel?
5 Which crustacean forms most of the blue whale’s diet?
6 What was the first subatomic particle to be discovered?
7 Where was the Rif war fought in the 1920s?
8 What does Samuel French specialise in publishing?
What links:
9
Happy Birthday; If I Can Dream; Pride (In the Name of Love); By the Time I Get to Arizona?
10 Bernicia; Deira; Elmet; Hwicce; Lindsey?
11 Power Stairs; Atlas Stones; Bus Pull; Car Deadlift?
12 Bock; Dunkel; Gose; Helles; Kölsch?
13 Essex (3); Cambridgeshire (3); Norfolk (1); Suffolk (0)?
14 Dykh-Tau; Ojos del Salado; Mount Logan; Mount Kenya; K2?
15 Chemistry at Somerville; Geography at St Hugh’s; PPE at Merton?

Beautiful Green Lagoon, Laguna Verde, near mountain pass San Francisco and Nevado Ojos Del Salado, Atacama, Chile, South America
Know all there is to know about Ojos del Salado? Photograph: reisegraf/Getty Images/iStockphoto

The answers

1 LVMH (Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton).
2 Earthquake.
3 15th century.
4 Margaret Sanger.
5 Krill.
6 Electron (JJ Thomson in 1897).
7 Morocco.
8 Plays.
9 Songs inspired by Martin Luther King: Stevie Wonder; Elvis; U2; Public Enemy.
10 Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.
11 Events in World’s Strongest Man competition.
12 German beer styles.
13 Number of cities, by county, in East Anglia (broadly defined).
14 Second highest peaks: Europe; South America; North America; Africa; Asia.
15 University education of UK’s female PMs (Thatcher, May, Truss): subject and Oxford college.

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