The questions
1 Which monolith was unveiled on 3 May in Hastings?
2 Who flew from New York to London just to sing “cherry cola”?
3 What is the only native venomous mammal in the UK?
4 Which national football team’s last game was on 12 September 1990?
5 Which script was deciphered by Michael Ventris?
6 Whose neighbours are the Swansons and Quagmire?
7 Trafford General in 1948 was the first what?
8 In 1974, who announced that “our long national nightmare is over”?
What links:
9 Mathematics; drug addiction; wrestling; Tchaikovsky ballet; Book of Genesis?
10 AAA; CCC; FCC; PWA; SEC; TVA; WPA?
11 Buckfast tonic wine; La Trappe beer; Chartreuse liqueur?
12 Fishleigh, Devon; Pensthorpe, Norfolk; Ynys-hir, Wales; Minsmere, Suffolk?
13 American Pharoah (sic), 2015; Affirmed; Seattle Slew; Secretariat?
14 Basil Spence; Jacob Epstein; Graham Sutherland; Benjamin Britten?
15 North-eastern Somalia; southern Chile; Bosphorus inlet, Istanbul?
The answers
1 Labour’s pledge “Ed Stone”.
2 Ray Davies (rerecording Lola).
3 Water shrew.
4 East Germany.
5 Linear B.
6 Griffins in Family Guy cartoon.
7 NHS hospital (formerly Park hospital).
8 President Gerald Ford.
9 Darren Aronofsky film subjects: Pi; Requiem for a Dream; The Wrestler; Black Swan; Noah.
10 New Deal alphabet agencies.
11 Made by monks.
12 BBC Springwatch locations.
13 American Triple Crown-winning horses.
14 Coventry Cathedral: architect; sculpted St Michael; designed tapestry; War Requiem premiered to mark consecration.
15 Geographical horns: H of Africa; Cape H; Golden H.
