Which island is named from the Old Norse for puffin? The Saturday quiz

Thomas Eaton
<span>A puffin at RSPB Bempton Cliffs reserve in Bridlington, the East Riding of Yorkshire. </span><span>Photograph: NurPhoto/Getty Images</span>
A puffin at RSPB Bempton Cliffs reserve in Bridlington, the East Riding of Yorkshire. Photograph: NurPhoto/Getty Images

The questions

1 Which island is named from the Old Norse for puffin?
2 Which Castilian was declared the first female Doctor of the Church?
3 What did Chinese farmer Yang Zhifa dig up in 1974?
4 Burnley Miners Social Club is one of the world’s biggest consumers of which drink?
5 Which siblings were a worker of the ground and a keeper of sheep?
6 Who invented the orgone energy accumulator?
7 Which Memphis record label was nicknamed Soulsville USA?
8 Lingua franca was originally spoken around which sea?
What links:
9 Althing; Folketing; Riksdag; Storting?
10 Cathy Lee Crosby; Lynda Carter; Adrianne Palicki; Gal Gadot?
11 Seedtime; blossom; meadow; harvest; heat; fruits (March to September)?
12 Boccaccio; Daniel Defoe; Albert Camus; Gabriel García Márquez?
13 Corbetts; Donalds; Grahams; Munros?
14 France (28); Belgium (34); Isle of Man (35)?
15 Impala; impi; mamba; nagana; vuvuzela?

The answers

1 Lundy.
2 St Teresa of Avila.
3 Terracotta Army.
4 Bénédictine.
5 Cain and Abel.
6 Wilhelm Reich.
7 Stax.
8 (Eastern) Mediterranean.
9 Nordic parliaments: Iceland; Denmark; Sweden; Norway.
10 Played Wonder Woman on screen.
11 Meaning of months’ names in French revolutionary calendar: Germinal; Floréal; Prairial; Messidor; Thermidor; Fructidor.
12 Wrote plague-set books: The Decameron; A Journal of the Plague Year; The Plague; Love in the Time of Cholera.
13 Categories of hill/mountain in Scotland.
14 Most stage wins in the Tour de France: Bernard Hinault; Eddy Merckx; Mark Cavendish.
15 Words of Zulu origin.

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