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Which island is named from the Old Norse for puffin? The Saturday quiz

1 Which island is named from the Old Norse for puffin?2 Which Castilian was declared the first female Doctor of the Church?3 What did Chinese farmer Yang Zhifa dig up in 1974?4 Burnley Miners Social Club is one of the world’s biggest consumers of which drink?5 Which siblings were a worker of the ground and a keeper of sheep?6 Who invented the orgone energy accumulator?7 Which Memphis record label was nicknamed Soulsville USA?8 Lingua franca was originally spoken around which sea?What links:
9 Althing; Folketing; Riksdag; Storting?10 Cathy Lee Crosby; Lynda Carter; Adrianne Palicki; Gal Gadot?11 Seedtime; blossom; meadow; harvest; heat; fruits (March to September)?12 Boccaccio; Daniel Defoe; Albert Camus; Gabriel García Márquez?13 Corbetts; Donalds; Grahams; Munros?14 France (28); Belgium (34); Isle of Man (35)?15 Impala; impi; mamba; nagana; vuvuzela?
1 Lundy.2 St Teresa of Avila.3 Terracotta Army.4 Bénédictine.5 Cain and Abel.6 Wilhelm Reich.7 Stax.8 (Eastern) Mediterranean.9 Nordic parliaments: Iceland; Denmark; Sweden; Norway.10 Played Wonder Woman on screen.11 Meaning of months’ names in French revolutionary calendar: Germinal; Floréal; Prairial; Messidor; Thermidor; Fructidor.12 Wrote plague-set books: The Decameron; A Journal of the Plague Year; The Plague; Love in the Time of Cholera.13 Categories of hill/mountain in Scotland.14 Most stage wins in the Tour de France: Bernard Hinault; Eddy Merckx; Mark Cavendish.15 Words of Zulu origin.

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