From inexperience, jealousy and nausea to the Mechanical Turk, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz

1 Before Liz Truss, who was the last prime minister never to contest a general election?
2 Which Egyptian pharaoh’s tomb was identified in 2025?
3 What is the England’s southernmost city?
4 In Chinese, what animal’s name means “big bear cat”?
5 The rock kimberlite is renowned as a source of what?
6 Carina Vogt, in 2014, was the first woman to win Winter Olympic gold in what event?
7 What game was played by the “automaton” the Mechanical Turk?
8 Which burger chain was named after Jerry Murrell and his four sons?
What links:
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Barbican, 1985; Palace theatre, 1985 to 2004; Sondheim theatre from 2004?
10 Bismar; pendulum; Roberval; steelyard; torsion?
11 Chandra; Coyolxauhqui; Máni; Selene; Thoth?
12 Horticultural skill; inexperience; jealousy; nausea; permanent resident card?
13 Behind the Scenes at the Museum; South Riding; The Secret Garden; Wuthering Heights?
14 1215; 1216, 1217, 1225; 1297?
15 Unchained Melody; Wherever I Lay My Hat; Light My Fire?

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