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What links cricket clothing, Delta music and Polanski? The Saturday quiz
This Saturday quiz challenges participants across various knowledge domains, starting with geography. It asks for the only Asian country entirely in the southern hemisphere. A question about historical transportation inquires about a cross-Channel service that concluded in 2000 after 32 years of operation. Literary buffs are tested on a 1957 novel uniquely typed on a 37-meter-long scroll. The quiz then shifts to business, asking which two major sportswear companies are headquartered in Herzogenaurach, Bavaria. Music and activism are covered with a question about the singer and activist known as Mama Africa. Environmental awareness is probed by asking what environmentalists commonly call Pfas. A specific historical event is recalled by asking about the central role played by a pair of Aris Isotoner Lights gloves. Military history is touched upon by a question about the operation Churchill famously remarked, "wars are not won by evacuations." The quiz concludes with a series of "what links" questions. These cover a group of individuals including Jonathan and Oscar Cainer, Debbie Frank, Sally Kirkman, and Shelley von Strunckel. Another link is sought between cricket clothing, Lucas and Polanski, Delta music, and NZ rugby. A historical line of queens, Syra (I), Philometor Soteira (II and III), Tryphaena (V), and Thea Philopator (VII), forms the basis of the next linking question. Latin phrases, Regnum defende and semper occultus, are presented for a common link. Finally, four prominent brass bands – Black Dyke, Brighouse and Rastrick, Cory, and Grimethorpe Colliery – require identification of their shared characteristic.