King Ottokar’s Sceptre: Day Four

Questions Sixteen to Twenty

Something different will occur over the next few days. I will pose five questions each day for six days across various subjects, and each answer will begin with a distinct letter of the alphabet. As you likely deduced, five questions per day across six days yields thirty answers, each starting with a unique letter, leaving four unaccounted for. Consequently, four duplicates exist; in their order of appearance, they spell the name of a villainous figure from the eighth volume of a comic originally serialised in the first half of the 20th century. Although this character is not widely known, the aim is to correctly identify the second, duplicate iteration of these initial letters to reveal the name. The answers will not be given on the same day as the questions but at the end.

Sixteen

Which West Indian dance shares its name with the first circle of Hell in Dante’s Inferno?

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Seventeen

Which sensory organs are coloured differently in a person with heterochromia?

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Eighteen

Established in San Francisco in 1965, this US psychedelic rock band built a strong following through its albums but struggled with singles, its most successful release being Fresh Air. The group’s title connects verbally to the element mercury and to text messaging; what is that three-word name?

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Nineteen

Escudella is a traditional stew-soup of which European region?

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Twenty

Truman Capote described which Breakfast at Tiffany’s character as an ‘American geisha’?

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Good Luck! The answers will be posted after day six questions. More questions tomorrow.

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