Tough 1 (16 March)

[merry]

1 What did DB Cooper do in 1971, the only such unsolved crime in the US?

2 Which horror stories were first told at the Villa Diodati?

3 What is London’s biggest brick building?

4 Which arcade game features a tilt warning?

5 Quanah Parker led which people in war and peace?

6 Which Darwinian phrase was actually coined by Herbert Spencer?

7 “I pressed the fire control …” is written on which artwork?

8 Which former Play School presenter sits in the House of Lords?

[Furby]

8 floella benjamin

[OurCreature]

2 Which horror stories were first told at the Villa Diodati? One of them is Frankenstein which was Mary Shelley's contribution but I don't know the other one.

3 What is London’s biggest brick building? I'll try Battersea Power Station.

6 Which Darwinian phrase was actually coined by Herbert Spencer? Survival Of The Fittest. It's one of those phrases commonly misattributed or misquoted.

[DaisyNinjaGirl]

2 Which horror stories were first told at the Villa Diodati? One of them is Frankenstein which was Mary Shelley's contribution but I don't know the other one.

The other one was The Vampyre by Dr John Polidori.

1 What did DB Cooper do in 1971, the only such unsolved crime in the US?
He hijacked a plane with a note and a contraption in his bag that may, or may not, have been a bomb. He convinced the Feds to give him a ransom in exchange for the hostages on the plane, then parachuted out of the plane with it. He's either still at large, or he died in the storm he parachuted into.

[eccles]

4 Which arcade game features a tilt warning?
Pinball

[Wildrover]

7. Whaam! by Roy Liechtenstein in the Tate Modern

[merry]

well done all, 7/8 (sorry Daisy at first I missed your Polidori answer, but I've corrected the score now)

1 Hijack a commercial airliner.
2 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and The Vampyre by John Polidori
3 Battersea power station.
4 Pinball.
5 Comanche.
6 Survival of the fittest.
7 Whaam! by Roy Lichtenstein.
8 Floella Benjamin.