The questions
1 Which playwright was jailed for defacing library books?
2 What was the world’s tallest structure until its collapse in 1991?
3 Who led the Jazz Messengers?
4 What does the U in U-boat stand for?
5 What, in 2022, will be the first African city to host the Commonwealth Games?
6 Who sang Wish Me Luck as she left Coronation Street in 1987?
7 Similarly named, what are the UK’s smallest birds?
8 The A15 crosses which major bridge?
What links:
9 He; Hg; Te; U; Np; Ce; Se; Pu; Pd?
10 Central London; Montreal; Great Yarmouth; Dublin (destroyed 1966)?
11 Saraband; fandango; waltz; minuet; mazurka; polonaise?
12 Boom Town; Hellfighters; Giant; Local Hero; There Will Be Blood?
13 Beethoven; Rodolphe Kreutzer; Tolstoy?
14 Cape York (N); Cape Byron (E); Wilsons Promontory (S); Steep Point (W)?
15 Amy Dunne; Rachel Watson; Lisbeth Salander; Griet?
The answers
1 Joe Orton.
2 Warsaw Radio Mast.
3 Art Blakey.
4 Untersee.
5 Durban, South Africa.
6 Hilda Ogden (Jean Alexander).
7 Goldcrest and firecrest.
8 Humber Bridge.
9 Elements named after astronomical objects: helium/sun; Mercury; tellurium/Earth; uranium/Uranus; neptunium/Neptune; cerium/Ceres; selenium/moon; plutonium/Pluto; palladium/Pallas.
10 Columns/pillars dedicated to Horatio Nelson.
11 Dances in 3/4 time.
12 Films set in and around the oil industry.
13 Violin Sonata No. 9: wrote; dedicated to; inspired title of 1889 novella.
14 Geographical extremes of mainland Australia.
15 Girls in book titles: Gone G; The G On The Train; The G With The Dragon Tattoo; G With A Pearl Earring.
