The questions
1 What was the “noble experiment” in 20th-century US?
2 Members of which religion meet in Kingdom Halls?
3 What early European bronze age culture is named after a drinking vessel?
4 Charles Ryder’s Schooldays is an unfinished prequel to which novel?
5 Which sport has matches divided into seven-minute periods?
6 Other than Switzerland, which country uses the Swiss franc?
7 The Nantucket sleigh ride was a hazard of what?
8 Mythological Irish hero born Setanta.
What links:
9 Dorothy in Oz; PM, repealed Corn Laws; male monarch; shotgun maker?
10 Phillips; Laffer; Engel; Lorenz; Indifference?
11 Andover; Bexhill; Churston; Doncaster?
12 Indian Runner; Muscovy; Pekin; Silver Appleyard; Aylesbury?
13 Rikers; Liberty; Roosevelt; Governors; Randall’s and Wards?
14 M (88); V (225); M (687); J (4,332); S (10,760); U (30,688); N (60,182)?
15 Ziusudra; Utnapishtim; Deucalion; Noah?
The answers
1 Prohibition.
2 Jehovah’s Witnesses.
3 Beaker (or Bell Beaker).
4 Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh).
5 Polo.
6 Liechtenstein.
7 Whaling.
8 Cuchulain.
9 Surnames of female characters in The Avengers TV series: (Dorothy) Gale; (Robert) Peel; King; Purdey.
10 Curves in economics.
11 Locations of Agatha Christie’s The ABC Murders.
12 Breeds of domestic duck.
13 New York islands.
14 Orbital periods of planets in our solar system (Earth days approx), from Mercury outwards.
15 Protagonists of great flood stories: Mesopotamian; Babylonian; Greek myth; The Bible.
