The questions
1 Which philosopher was run over by a laundry van in Paris in 1980?
2 6CO2 + 6H2O + light = C6H12O6 + 6O2 describes which process?
3 Sylvia Robinson set up which pioneering hip-hop label?
4 Who were trapped under a basket by a cat for five hours?
5 What type of institution is a supermax?
6 Which Greek football teams contest the derby of eternal enemies?
7 Max Brod was the friend, editor and biographer of which writer?
8 Juche (self-reliance) is the official ideology of which country?
What links:
9 Lundy; Steep Holm; Flat Holm; Tusker Rock?
10 Marguerite Yourcenar; Robert Graves; Robert Harris?
11 Cashpoint; jeep; muzak; portakabin; sellotape; thermos; taser?
12 Christie’s Prudence Beresford; Naomie Harris; rapper Curtis Jackson?
13 Queen Henrietta Maria; Lord de la Warr; George II; Charles I?
14 Liar’s; ship of Theseus; Buridan’s ass; Catch-22; Russell’s?
15 Manchester Town Hall; Natural History Museum; Cambridge Union?
The answers
1 Roland Barthes.
2 Photosynthesis.
3 Sugar Hill Records.
4 Benjamin Bunny and Peter Rabbit.
5 High security prison.
6 Olympiacos and Panathinaikos.
7 Franz Kafka.
8 North Korea.
9 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
10 Wrote Roman “memoirs” fiction: Memoirs of Hadrian; I, Claudius; Imperium.
11 All trademarks.
12 Coin-based names: (Tommy and) Tuppence; Moneypenny in Bond films; 50 Cent.
13 Gave names to US states: Maryland; Delaware; Georgia; North and South Carolina.
14 Paradoxes.
15 Designed by Alfred Waterhouse.
