The questions
1 Which composer carried around “conversation books”?
2 What are lifted by the Falkirk Wheel?
3 Who was painted by Joshua Reynolds as the tragic muse?
4 Which EU language developed from Sicilian Arabic?
5 Which gymnast won four golds at the Rio Olympics?
6 What is threatened by the crown-of-thorns starfish?
7 Sigmaringen, Germany, became whose capital in exile in 1944?
8 Which cathedral is home to the Mappa Mundi?
What links:
9 St Joseph, Missouri and Sacramento, California, in 1860-61?
10 Southport; Sandwich; Hoylake; Lytham St Annes?
11 MF Doom; Pussy Riot; Slipknot; Lordi; The Residents?
12 Dawn; Cullinan; Ghost; Wraith; Phantom?
13 Marlene Dietrich; Helen Mirren; Elle Fanning?
14 Like; love; haha; wow; sad; angry; care?
15 PM (1827 & 1865); chancellor (1943 & 1970); foreign secretary (1977)?
The answers
1 Beethoven.
2 Canal boats.
3 Sarah Siddons.
4 Maltese.
5 Simone Biles.
6 Coral (it eats it).
7 Vichy France.
8 Hereford.
9 Pony Express mail service.
10 Locations of English courses that host Open golf tournament.
11 Masked musicians.
12 Current models of Rolls-Royce cars.
13 Played Catherine the Great: The Scarlet Empress film; Catherine the Great miniseries; The Great TV series.
14 Facebook reactions.
15 Died in office: George Canning & Lord Palmerston; Kingsley Wood & Iain Macleod; Anthony Crosland.
