The questions
1 What starts with a General Prologue and ends with a Retraction?
2 Which breed of swan is named after an English engraver?
3 What was famously tied around a Phrygian ox-cart?
4 What range from 9H to 9B?
5 Who hosts a TV “Drag Race”?
6 Which organ is made up of red and white pulp?
7 Which company made the PET, VIC-20 and 64 computers?
8 Penicillin was discovered at which hospital?
What links:
9 Sissy Spacek; Angela Bettis; Chloë Grace Moretz?
10 Carling; Barclaycard; Barclays; nobody, currently?
11 M & P Curie; I Curie & F Joliot; A & G Myrdal; G & C Cori; M-B & E Moser?
12 Boston Corbett in 1865 and Jack Ruby in 1963?
13 Akela; Fenrir; Maugrim; White Fang; Ghost?
14 Writing Home; Untold Stories; Keeping On Keeping On?
15 88; 224; 365; 687; 4,332; 10,759; 30,688; 60,182?
The answers
1 Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.
2 Bewick’s.
3 Gordian knot.
4 Grades of pencil hardness.
5 RuPaul.
6 Spleen.
7 Commodore.
8 St Mary’s, Paddington.
9 Played Carrie in versions of the Stephen King novel.
10 Premier League sponsors, since 1993.
11 Married couples who won Nobel prizes.
12 Shot presidential assassins: John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald.
13 Fictional wolves/part-wolves.
14 Volumes of Alan Bennett’s diaries.
15 Orbital years of planets (in Earth days): Mercury; Venus; Earth; Mars; Jupiter; Saturn; Uranus; Neptune.
