From Finnegans Wake to Satyendra Nath Bose, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz

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:
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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?

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