The questions
1 Which two non-member states have UN observer status?
2 What happens to cells during apoptosis?
3 When would you hit a sliotar with a camán?
4 Which Booker winner donated half his prize to the British Black Panthers?
5 Kopi luwak coffee has undergone what process?
6 What was targeted by the Stuxnet computer virus?
7 Who did Margaret Thatcher call “that man who paints those dreadful pictures”?
8 Which royal society originated in the London “Safety First” Council?
What links:
9 Bush Sr; Carter; Ford; Hoover; Taft?
10 Rio de Janeiro; Monmouthshire; Wicklow; Malverns?
11 Annie’s room; Mad house; Bed’n’breakfast; Tops?
12 Victoria Cleland; Chris Salmon; Andrew Bailey; Merlyn Lowther?
13 The Recruit; March; To An Athlete Dying Young; Hughley Steeple?
14 Buggles; Pat Benatar; Rod Stewart; The Who (in 1981)?
15 Hadley-Apennine (15); Descartes highlands (16); Taurus-Littrow (17)?
The answers
1 Holy See and State of Palestine.
2 They die (programmed death).
3 In a game of hurling (ball and stick).
4 John Berger.
5 Half-digested by the Asian palm civet.
6 Iran’s nuclear industry.
7 Francis Bacon.
8 Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents.
9 Losing incumbent presidents since 1900.
10 Location of Sugar Loaf/Sugarloaf hills.
11 Darts terminology: 1; double 1; 1 and 20 and 5; double 20.
12 Chief cashiers of the Bank of England.
13 Poems in Housman’s A Shropshire Lad.
14 First acts played on MTV.
15 Lunar landing sites of later Apollo missions.
