The questions
1 All European eels are born in which sea?
2 Which title property was owned by John Jarndyce?
3 Proteinaceous infectious particles are better known as what?
4 Who had 19 albums in the top 100 in January?
5 Which cricketer was Theresa May’s childhood hero?
6 The Daimler Victoria was the first of what type of vehicle?
7 Magnificent + Hateful + Dirty = how many desperados?
8 Who was crowned in 1170, but never became king?
What links:
9 Insulin; glucagon; somatostatin?
10 George du Maurier novel; Robert Burns poem; Victorien Sardou play?
11 -holme; -thorpe; -thwaite; -by; -keld; -toft?
12 Oliver; Fitzgerald; Ellington; Basie; Hines; Holiday?
13 Leonardo da Vinci; Hieronymus Bosch; Nellie Melba; Florence Nightingale?
14 Arabic; Amharic; Tigrinya; Hebrew; Maltese?
15 Hotelier; actor; producer; singer; actor; senator; construction worker?
The answers
1 Sargasso Sea.
2 Bleak House.
3 Prions.
4 David Bowie.
5 Geoff Boycott.
6 (Motorised) taxi.
7 27 (7+8+12).
8 Henry the Young King (Henry II’s son).
9 Hormones produced in the pancreas.
10 Gave names to hats: trilby; tam o’shanter; fedora.
11 Viking place name suffixes.
12 Jazz aristocracy: King; Queen; Duke; Count; Earl; Lady.
13 Named after home town/birthplace.
14 Semitic languages.
15 Elizabeth Taylor’s husbands’ professions: Hilton; Wilding; Todd; Fisher; Burton; Warner; Fortensky.
- This article was edited on 5 September 2016. In an earlier version, an unfortunate typo (1070 instead of 1170) rendered question 8 impossible to answer.
