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What links condor, hands, monkey, spider and whale? The Saturday quiz


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From a conspiracy theory to Chrissie Hynde, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz

1 Which libertine was Count von Waldstein’s librarian?2 Where is Britain’s only statue of a medieval Jewish woman?3 Highlife music originated in which country?4 Which conspiracy theory centred on the Comet Ping Pong restaurant?5 A prototype of what was first publicly demonstrated in Selfridges in 1925?6 Which waterway divides Schleswig-Holstein?7 What animal class is named from the Greek for “double life”?8 Which race is run between Anchorage and Nome, Alaska?What links:9 Alma; Ether; Jarom; Moroni; Nephi; Omni?10 Charley Says; The Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water; Splink; Tufty; Clunk Click?11 Chrissie Hynde; The Waitresses; The Black Keys; Devo?12 Normal; reverse; strike-slip; oblique?13 Companion of Artemis; mother of Minos; cupbearer of Zeus; daughter of Inachus?14 Condor; hands; monkey; spider; whale (in southern Peru)?15 Shakespeare; Sherwood King; Booth Tarkington; Franz Kafka?

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