From AOC to Unplugged, Ian Botham to the Yeomen Warders, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz. 1 What piece of fruit was sold for $5.2m last month?. 2 Which marine organism is named from the Greek for “wanderer”?. 3 What was added on PhONEday on 16 April 1995?.
4 Which Roman venue could seat more than 150,000 spectators?. 5 Which US politician is known as AOC?. 6 What Scorsese film is about a “boiler room” operation?. 7 The Lit & Phil is a historic library in which English city?. 8 Which TV channel launched its Unplugged series in 1989?.
What links:. 9 Montauciel the sheep, a duck and a rooster on 19 September 1783?. 10 Stephen Fry; Mark Gatiss; Charles Gray; Christopher Lee?. 11 Aire; Nidd; Ribble; Swale; Ure; Wharfe?. 12 FV; MV; PS; RMS; RNLB; RV; SS?. 13 Hecate; Lugh; Shiva; Triglav?. 14 Chad; France; Greece; Laos; Spain?.
15 Ian Botham; Andrew Johnston; Yeomen Warders?. 1 Duct-taped banana (Comedian artwork by Maurizio Cattelan). 2 Plankton. 3 Digit 1 added to UK area dialling codes. 4 Circus Maximus. 5 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. 6 The Wolf of Wall Street. 7 Newcastle upon Tyne.
8 MTV. 9 Passengers of Montgolfier brothers’ first demonstration of hot air balloon. 10 Played Mycroft Holmes on TV and film. 11 Major rivers of the Yorkshire Dales. 12 Ship/boat prefixes: fishing vessel; motor vessel; paddle steamer; Royal Mail ship; Royal National Lifeboat; research vessel; steamship.