Answers ro the Brainteaser of 28 January

Answers:

1. Ron DeSantis, the governor for Florida. Despite the pejorative, "Ron DeSanctimonious"
   being used in every Trump speech for the past six months, he still endorsed the ex-
   president for re-election in November.
2. White and Blue
3. False – there have been less than 20 unprovoked attacks by hammerheads since 1580
   and all were non-fatal.
4. The Soviet Union, the USA, China and India. The Soviet Union was the first on 3
   February 1966, four months before a US vehicle landed on the moon.
5. The Rolling Stones
6. Knowledge
7. Hungary – Viktor Orbán, its prime minister, can be an awkward and difficult character.
   It's not clear why Hungary is delaying its approval process.
8. General Robert E. Lee – the Confederate commander.
9. People (around 300 000 across Germany) protested once it became known that a group
   of right-wing politicians had met in November to discuss the concept of expelling
   millions of resident aliens. The rise of the AFD, a right-wing populist party (especially in
   the east of Germany) is also a major concern for protestors.
10. Flyfishing – mending is casting so that the fly is not swept away by the current of the
    stream, double haul is increasing the cast distance of the flyline, and strip is the process
    of retrieving (by hand) the flyline once it has been cast.
11. Salt Lake City
12. The film was Barbie, and its director, Greta Gerwig, missed a nomination for best
    director, while its lead actress, Margot Robbie, missed one in the best actress category.
13. An irrational fear or aversion to colours.
14. Philadelphia
15. Rhiannon – Fleetwood Mac.
16. Measles, a virus that was declared eradicated in the UK in 2017. However, falling
    vaccination rates since then has seen the country's biggest outbreak since the 1990s.
    Kazakhstan has had the largest outbreak with close on 14k reported cases last year.
17. Amelia Earhart on May 21, 1932 – five years to the day after Charles Lindbergh
    performed the same feat. Amy Johnson, a British aviator, who achieved this feat
    (obviously with stops) in May 1930.
18. a) 3 – the Vatican City, San Marino, (both surrounded by Italy) and Lesotho (surrounded
    by South Africa.
19. b) – the water level will remain the same.
20. a) – Iceland. Greenland's Arctic mosquitoes are legendary and in Norway there are 38
    species of the insect, but none in Iceland.