The Seattle Mariners have what unwanted distinction in baseball? The Weekend quiz
The questions
1 Whose tomb features lines from Theses on Feuerbach?
2 Who renamed himself Black Leopard in 1971?
3 The Seattle Mariners have what unwanted distinction in baseball?
4 Light quanta are best known as what?
5 Which people are said to have no friends but the mountains?
6 What began in 1785 as the Daily Universal Register?
7 Which peninsula extends for 750 miles south of Tijuana?
8 Who founded the religious movement Christian Science?
What links:
9 Evelyn De Morgan; Marie Spartali Stillman; Emma Sandys?
10 Camel; rabbit; pig; eagle; eel; shellfish?
11 Jordan; Beaumont; Scone; Shrewsbury; Judas?
12 Y, Z, E, P, T, G, M, k, h, da?
13 A Horse With No Name; Heat Of The Moment; The Final Countdown?
14 Skins; medal; stableford; greensomes; Texas scramble?
15 Hugh Pigot; William Bligh; Yevgeny Golikov?
The answers
1 Karl Marx (The philosophers have only interpreted the world…).
2 Marvel’s Black Panther (to avoid confusion with militant group).
3 Only current MLB team to never play in a World Series.
4 Photons.
5 The Kurds.
6 The Times newspaper.
7 Baja California (Mexico).
8 Mary Baker Eddy.
9 Women pre-Raphaelite painters.
10 Considered non-kosher in Jewish dietary laws.
11 Fictional Oxford colleges: His Dark Materials; Morse novels; Decline and Fall; Gaudy Night; Zuleika Dobson.
12 Metric units prefix symbols: yotta; zetta; exa; peta; tera; giga; mega; kilo hecto; deka.
13 Tracks by ‘continent’ groups: America; Asia; Europe.
14 Formats of golf competition.
15 Captains of mutinous ships: HMS Hermione; HMS Bounty; Battleship Potemkin.
