Quiz for 26th July<\/p>\n
Six subjects linked in a collection of miniature portraits sold to the UK public five years ago. Identify the subjects and the collection.<\/p>\n
1. The 1st worked with a cousin of mine from Skipton, Henry Sidgwick, but did much more than co-found a college.<\/p>\n
2. Number 48 was sister of the 1st and was a first medically in the UK.<\/p>\n
3. 50 was a palaeobotanist at Manchester seeking to prove the existence of Gondwanaland but failing to make the expedition with Scott.<\/p>\n
4. 56 was independent in Liverpool and from the English universities combined and warned about the evil of fascism.<\/p>\n
5. Although 72 was British she was brought up in the USA where she was imprisoned for un-American activities before being shipped off to the UK for the first time. Her many contributions include a new understanding of Notting Hill.<\/p>\n
6. 81 would have had a good ready made campaign song from the Beach Boys but never used that middle name. Only by fighting all the way were the first laws of equality achieved – in the purse and elsewhere.<\/p>\n
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If you need further clues our subjects graduated at the following universities:<\/p>\n
1. Just a boarding school run by Robert Browning’s aunt.<\/p>\n
2. Sorbonne<\/p>\n
3. UCL<\/p>\n
4. Somerville, Oxford<\/p>\n
5. Streets of Harlem<\/p>\n
6. St Hugh’s, Oxford<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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