Monday 10th July 2023
    Difficulty: Hard

    Message in a bottle (Quiz #234)

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    A message in a bottle is a form of communication in which a message is sealed in a container, often a bottle, and thrown into the sea, in the hope that it will be recovered in the future.

    1. What is the record time between sending a message in a bottle and its recovery?

    2. From which sinking vessel did Jeremiah Burke send a hastily written farewell message in a bottle?

    3. In July 2017, a Scottish widower seeking female companionship set 2,000 bottled messages adrift at various locations around the U.K. What was the result of his endeavours?

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