Answers to Ian’s Trivialus 28 April 2025
Answers
Manosphere – where thousands of impressionable young men are being influenced by influencers such as Joe Rogan and Andrew Tate.
Green
The Holy Grail
Barbary
Jimi Hendrix
a) – 2013. The Conclave is the body of Cardinals that will elect the next Pope.)
Virgin Atlantic
The Sun
In Indian-ruled Kashmir. In the resort town of Pahalgam, at least 26 people were killed when gunmen opened fire on a group of people, mainly tourists. The attack was carried out by a group called, The Resistance Group, in protest at “outsiders” being settled in the Muslim-majority area. India has accused Islamabad of being linked to the attack.
HMS Vanguard, Victorious, Vigilant and Vengeance. The first, HMS Vanguard was commissioned in 1993 and the last in 1999 so they are, or have already, approaching their 25-year lifespan.
Mark Twain
Chartres
Lancashire
c) – 100 years. She has lived at the zoo since 1932, and her hatchlings (all female) are expected to live anything between 100 and 200 years.
Bookkeeppers
Jungle fighters in the Burma campaign. Brigadier Orde Wingate.
a) – New Mexico
a) – Sean Connery
The okapi – found in the rainforests of Central Africa, an elusive and solitary animal with the head of a giraffe, the body of a horse and the stripes of a zebra.
Robert Mugabe