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MINI - Boat People, Stolmen, and Irminger Rings


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MINISODE!!! - Boat People, Stolmen, and Irminger Rings

Round 1 - 6

  1. Athletics at the 2012 Summer Paralympics – Women's 1500 metres T20 (The stats)
  2. Epuraea corticina (it’s a beetle)
  3. Ian Stanger (a Scottish cricketer)
  4. Hilarempis gymnaspis (it’s a dancefly)
  5. Skytanking (an aviation fuel company)
  6. Boat People (1982 film) -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boat_People_(1982_film)

Round 2 - 13

  1. Alferrarede (a town in Portugal)
  2. Ryusei Furukawa (a Japanese painter)
  3. Hochsauerlandkreis (a district in Germany)
  4. Arthromeris mairei (a species of fern)
  5. Syrnola thelma (an extinct species of sea snail)
  6. Western Leader (a local newspaper in Auckland, New Zealand)
  7. 1897 Iowa Senate election (The stats)
  8. Restless Feeling [by Carl Weathersby] (a 1998 blues album)
  9. Déyyess [AKA Hannah Jennifer Marie Butcher] (an English sing-songwriter)
  10. Tommy Walsh [hurler, born 1998] (not to be confused with the hurler WITH THE SAME NAME born in 1983)
  11. John Bourke, 1st Earl of Mayo (an Irish politician)
  12. Bhim Sena (an social organization in India)
  13. Stolmen - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolmen

Round 3 - 5

  1. 50 St James's Street (it’s a house in London…)
  2. Ardjoeno-class sloop (it’s a boat)
  3. Carmen Silvera (a British actress)
  4. Worshipful Company of Grocers (this was a let down.. I was thinking it was going to be a weird religion/cult based on groceries… it’s just an old ass guild… England, you’re weird)
  5. Irminger Rings - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irminger_Rings

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Roll for KnowledgeBy Selene Forsythe