The questions
1 What was written between 1 January 1660 and 31 May 1669?
2 Which UK resort has the world’s longest pleasure pier?
3 Sandra Day O’Connor was the first woman appointed to which body?
4 Which painkiller’s name is derived from the Greek for “poppy head”?
5 Which driver won the F1 title in a car bearing his own name?
6 The Trefoil Guild is an adult branch of which organisation?
7 Savak was the secret police of which state?
8 Inishmore is the largest island in which archipelago?
What links:
9 Cloud Dancer; Mocha Mousse; Peach Fuzz; Viva Magenta?
10 M (192); V (360); E (500); M (760); J (2,580); S (4,800); U (9,600); N (14,400)?
11 Bono; Billy Gibbons; Karl Lagerfeld; Roy Orbison; Anna Wintour?
12 Potatoes, tomatoes, maize and tobacco v cattle, wheat, bananas and sugar cane?
13 Ashoka chakra; crescent moon and star; lion holding sword; red disc?
14 Sly Stone and Kathy Silva; 4,150 people in 1982; Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce?
15 Cleopatra and Julius Caesar; Joan of Arc; Barbara Undershaft; Kitty Warren?
The answers
1 Samuel Pepys’s diary.
2 Southend-on-Sea.
3 US supreme court.
4 Codeine.
5 Jack Brabham (1966).
6 Guides/Guiding.
7 Shah’s Iran.
8 Aran Islands (Ireland).
9 Recent Pantone colours of the year.
10 Approximate number of seconds it takes light from the sun to reach the planets (abbreviated, Mercury to Neptune).
11 Rarely seen without sunglasses.
12 Key elements of the so-called Columbian exchange.
13 Details of South Asian flags: India; Pakistan; Sri Lanka; Bangladesh.
14 Married at Madison Square Garden: onstage in 1974; mass wedding of Unification church; in 2026.
15 Title characters of George Bernard Shaw plays.
