The questions
1 Who said, “There’s something wrong with our bloody ships today”?
2 What did Philippe Petit do on 6 August, 1974?
3 What title did Afterglow Miami Ink win in March?
4 Which country’s name comes from the Latin for “southern”?
5 In the outer solar system, what is a KBO?
6 Which two US presidents were born west of the Rockies?
7 Who was Katerina Izmailova in the title of a 1934 opera?
8 What is the UK’s smallest bird of prey?
What links:
9 Rashidun; Umayyad; Abbasid?
10 Lucy Maud; Susan Eloise; Phyllis Dorothy; Pamela Lyndon?
11 West Kennet Avenue; the Sanctuary; Silbury and Windmill Hills; Long Barrow?
12 2 (Leo McKern, Georgina Cookson et al); 6 (Patrick McGoohan); 42 (Kathleen Breck)?
13 You Want It Darker; Blackstar; HitnRun Phase Two?
14 Honshu and Hokkaido, under the Tsugaru Strait?
15 Hobo; wolf; brown recluse; garden; grass?
The answers
1 Admiral Beatty at the Battle of Jutland.
2 High-wire walk at the World Trade Center.
3 Best in Show at Crufts.
4 Australia.
5 Kuiper Belt Object.
6 Barack Obama and Richard Nixon.
7 Lady Macbeth Of The Mtsensk District (Shostakovich).
8 The merlin.
9 Early Islamic caliphates.
10 Authors’ initials: LM Montgomery; SE Hinton; PD James; PL Travers.
11 Parts of the Avebury world heritage site.
12 Number characters in The Prisoner TV series.
13 Final studio albums by casualties of 2016: Leonard Cohen; David Bowie; Prince.
14 Seikan Tunnel.
15 North American spiders.
