The questions
1 The Helm in Cumbria is the only named example of what in Britain?
2 Which artwork is also called Skrik or Der Schrei der Natur?
3 Which computer system became self-aware on 29 August 1997?
4 Who is the most-followed person on Twitter?
5 Which French empress was born in Martinique?
6 What was nicknamed the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare?
7 Which whisky comes in Red, Black, Gold and Blue labels?
8 Which BBC series has featured 386 bird songs?
What links:
9 Lady Jane Grey; George Canning; William Henry Harrison?
10 Hebridean island; Franco-Swiss and lunar mountains; 199-145m years ago?
11 Murder; Lexiko; The Landlord’s Game; The Conquest Of The World?
12 Australia II; Stars & Stripes 87; Black Magic; Alinghi 5; Oracle Team USA 17?
13 Handy; working; Heidelberg; upright; wise?
14 Mwanza and Musoma, Tanzania; Kisumu, Kenya; Entebbe, Uganda?
15 Shen Te; Anna Fierling; Galileo; Arturo Ui?
The answers
1 Wind.
2 Munch’s Scream (Norwegian and German titles).
3 Skynet (in the Terminator films).
4 Katy Perry.
5 Joséphine (de Beauharnais).
6 Special Operations Executive.
7 Johnnie Walker.
8 Radio 4’s Tweet of the Day.
9 Shortest ruling: English monarch; UK PM; US president.
10 Jura; Jura range and Montes Jura; Jurassic period.
11 Original names/early versions of board games: Cluedo; Scrabble; Monopoly; Risk.
12 America’s Cup-winning yachts.
13 Human types, translations: Homo habilis; H ergaster; H heidelbergensis; H erectus; H sapiens.
14 Cities on Lake Victoria.
15 Brecht title characters: Good Person Of Szechwan; Mother Courage; Life Of Galileo; Resistible Rise Of Arturo Ui.
