What links Salvador Dalí to Christopher Wren? The Saturday quiz

The questions

1 What was “tugged to her final berth to be damaged up”?
2 What's the vocal organ in birds?
3 Which group are the Bulletproof Boy Scouts?
4 After 37 years, what ends on 1 August?
5 The Declaration of Breda paved the best way for whose return?
6 What's the UK’s largest nationwide park?
7 Within the first world conflict, who contested 12 Battles of the Isonzo?
8 Which Whitechapel-made object hangs in Philadelphia?
What hyperlinks:
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Below 40; beneath 1.8 metres; graduate; 1,500 hours flying time; check pilot?
10 Christopher Wren; Salvador Dalí; Peggy Guggenheim?
11 776BC and AD393; 1896 and 2022?
12 Woodboring Xestobium rufovillosum; fungus Amanita phalloides; the US’s lowest level?
13 Betelgeuse; Rigel; Bellatrix; Alnilam?
14 Steve Blass illness; twisties; yips; dartitis?
15 The Final Man; Station Eleven; Oryx and Crake; All the time Coming House?

A Song Thrush [Turdus philomelos] perched on a small branch. Picture taken on the 15th of May 2018. Swindon, Wiltshire, England
Sing once you’re successful. Photograph: Gary Chalker/Getty Photographs

The solutions

1 HMS Temeraire (in Turner’s portray).
2 Syrinx.
3 BTS (which means of full title in Korean).
4 Neighbours (last episode broadcast).
5 Charles II.
6 Cairngorms.
7 Italy and Austria-Hungary.
8 Liberty Bell.

Signal as much as our Inside Saturday e-newsletter for an unique behind-the-scenes have a look at the making of the journal’s greatest options, in addition to a curated checklist of our weekly highlights.

9 (A few of) choice standards for unique Nasa astronauts.
10 Buried in their very own design/museum: St Paul’s Cathedral; Dalí museum, Figueres; museum, Venice.
11 First recorded and final/latest Olympic Video games: historical and fashionable.
12 Demise: D watch beetle; D cap mushroom; D Valley.
13 Orion: brightest stars within the constellation.
14 Sporting psychological blocks/lack of management: baseball; gymnastics; golf (initially); darts.
15 Submit-apocalyptic novels: Mary Shelley; Emily St John Mandel; Margaret Atwood; Ursula Ok Le Guin.

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