Sunday Times Quiz

[Gaz747]

Nearly there!!

Q13 (a) Spanish or Mexican??                           

Q17 ??

Q25 Prince Strozzi???

Cheers

[jno]

Mexicans speak Spanish (supposedly without the lisp). 25 sounds like Berlusconi, though only detail I've been able to find about his Sardinia villa says entrance is underground rather than underwater - need an Italian mole to confirm.

[gw1]

Q13a - Spanish

Q17 - (d) 700 ml, (a) 652 ml, (b) 546 ml, (c) 388 ml

Q25 Sir Cliff Richard

What do you have for Q1 (not sure I fully understand the question), Q26b and Q30?  Now starting to doubt my answer to Q12 - I thought it was (d), but having second thoughts.

[jno]

gw1, I'm sticking with Berlusconi's villa for Q25: see: http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labour/comment/0,9236,1272307,00.html

also, for Barcelona to Rome, see: http://www.travelnotes.org/Europe/Distances/Rome.htm

[gw1]

I used http://www.indo.com/cgi-bin/dist/place1=@174076/place2=@173733 (879 km - 546 miles) at http://www.indo.com/distance. But I've looked at http://www.travelnotes.org/Europe/Distances/Rome.htm (1,415 km) and I see your point.  Now more bewildered than ever!!!

[gw1]

I accept your point on Silvio Berlusconi.

[jno]

ah yes, I see yours is as the crow flies, my crow is driving a car. The question doesn't specify which we should use, road, rail, air etc (I think there was some debate about this a few days back), and Barcelona/Rome is one route where it makes a big difference.

[Gaz747]

Thanks for Berlusconi.  Q17 -I am still not convinced on mode of transport.Where is there reference to distances from Aberdeen to Penzance (as crow flies)

[maccal]

For distances between cities, this site may be helpful

http://www.freedom-tour.com/mall/kmeurope.ht

[gw1]

For Aberdeen to Penzance I used the AA (http://www.theaa.com/travelwatch/planner_main.jsp).

[quizcath]

Q17:  I used AA and Viamichelin and came up with BADC.  But I don't think this is scientific and the only really meaningful answer can be via great circle (aka flying distance aka lat/long : see www.wcrl.ars.usda.gov/cec/java.lat-long.htm)  It comes out ABDC using this method and I'm sticking with that I think.

[principessa]

Check out this article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/10/11/umway.xml for distance between Aberdeen and Penzance - might be where they got it from.  I get b, a, d, c using that distance and freedomtour.com.