SUNDAY CHALLENGE

What was the purpose “Manhattan Project”?

What feat did Min Bahadur Sherchan of Nepal, aged 76, recently accomplish?

Which team won the Uefa Champions League in 2008?

Who directed the 1994 film Natural of the

Ludwig van Beethoven declared in 1806 that another composer of his acquaintance was the greatest of any then living. This composer thought Beethoven’s playing rough and uncouth. Which of his ungrateful contemporaries had impressed him so deeply?

Who played Butch Cassidy to Robert Redford’s Sundance Kid?

In which ocean is the island of St Helena, site of Napoleon’s final imprisonment?

Which is the third largest planet in the solar system?

Who wrote

first published in 1968, which told the story of Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters as they travelled America in a school bus experimenting with LSD?

Which watch-making company partnered with Mercedes- Benz to produce the Smart Car?

Who became the first pilot to travel faster than sound in 1947?

Which rock ’n’ roll legend died on September 18, 1970, under suspicious circumstances? It is generally accepted that he drowned in his own vomit.

In film or fiction, what is the term, popularised by Alfred Hitchcock, used to describe a plot device used to motivate characters and/or advance a story but the details of which are of little or no importance otherwise?

Which spiral New York museum was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright?

Which scientist signed the document which patented the triangular shape of the trombone?

Reaching three metres in length and weighing more than 136 kilograms, they are the heaviest lizards on Earth. They have thrived in the harsh climate of Indonesia’s Lesser Sunda Islands for millions of years although, amazingly, their existence was unknown to humans until about 100 years ago. What are they?

Which co-founder of Apple Computer once said, “Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked”?

Scotch tape was invented in 1930 by engineer Richard Drew. What company did he work for at the time?

Which two brothers, alleged to have been cared for by a she wolf, were credited with the founding of the city of Rome?

Which is the only European colonial power still to control part of mainland South America? Across

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10 Tree of Acer genus (5) 11 One blamed for others’ sins (9)

12 Closing date (8)

13 To erect (3,2)

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19 Endeavour (7)

21 Transient (7)

22 Muscular strength (5) 24 Glass-sided fish tank (8) 27 Fivefold (9) 28 Clearing in forest (5) 29 Besides (4) 30 Colony (10)

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3 To offer in excuse (5) 4 Interval of relief (7) 5 Drastic reorganisation (5-2) 7 Overhead (5)

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