The questions
1 Who rode to see Wolverhampton Wanderers on a bike called Mr Phoebus?
2 Which theatrical warning was delivered by a soothsayer?
3 Whose proposed match led to the Rough Wooing?
4 Which technology was demonstrated on Pall Mall in 1807?
5 What is the only country crossed by the equator and a tropic?
6 Which UK daily newspapers have a gothic font masthead?
7 Who was a “habitual criminal who accepts arrest as an occupational hazard”?
8 In the early 1960s, who owned the Carousel Club in Dallas?
What links:
9 Novel by John Steinbeck; psychological case study by Robert Lindner; novel by Edna Ferber?
10 Sanspareils Greenlands; Readers; Dukes; Kookaburra?
11 USA; USSR; DHSS?
12 Adopted, 1821; suspended, 1914; part restored, 1925; abandoned, 1931?
13 Kazakhstan; Ukraine; Palau; Sweden; EU?
14 Elder; Nagano; Skrowaczewski; Loughran; Barbirolli?
15 Ajaccio; Portoferraio; Jamestown?
The answers
1 Edward Elgar.
2 Beware the ides of March (Julius Caesar).
3 Mary Queen of Scots and (future) Edward VI.
4 Gas street lighting.
5 Brazil.
6 Daily Mail and Telegraph.
7 Norman Stanley Fletcher (in Porridge).
8 Jack Ruby.
9 Sources for James Dean films: East Of Eden; Rebel Without A Cause; Giant.
10 Cricket ball brands.
11 Back In The …: Chuck Berry song; Beatles song; Half Man Half Biscuit album.
12 Gold standard in the UK.
13 Blue and yellow flags.
14 Principal conductors of the Hallé orchestra.
15 Chief settlements on Napoleonic islands: Corsica; Elba; St Helena.
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