1 Which country lost its coastline in the war of the Pacific?
2 What fantasy land’s name was inspired by an Umbrian hilltown?
3 The penguin Tux is the mascot of which operating system?
4 What spice comes from the unripe berries of the pimento tree?
5 In what field are Syd Field and Robert McKee “gurus"?
6 Artist François Boucher said that what was “too green and badly lit”?
7 Who are coached by a répétiteur?
8 Where is the Royal Agricultural University?
What links:
9 Shark; cows’ heads; cow and calf; sheep; fish; butterflies; zebra?
10 Bribes; cave; chair; coin; lecture; stage?
11 Christopher Marlowe, 1593; Duke of Buckingham, 1628; George Cornell, 1966?
12 The Enchanted Island; Forbidden Planet; Prospero’s Books?
13 Beefeater Gin; Aberdeen Asset Management; Xchanging; BNY Mellon?
14 Staghorn; pillar; lettuce; brain; birdsnest; mushroom?
15 Great; Choral; From the New World?
The answers
1 Bolivia.
2 Narnia (Narni).
3 Linux.
4 Allspice.
5 Screenwriting/scriptwriting.
6 Nature.
7 Opera singers (and ballet dancers).
8 Cirencester.
9 Animals used in Damien Hirst artworks.
10 “False friends” in French.
11 Killed in pubs: Deptford; Greyhound, Portsmouth; Blind Beggar, Whitechapel.
12 Versions of The Tempest: Dryden play; sci-fi film; Peter Greenaway film.
13 Sponsored the Boat Race.
14 Types of coral reef.
15 Names for ninth symphonies: Schubert; Beethoven; Dvorak.
