The questions
1 What book takes place “the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs”?
2 Odysseus and Ajax quarrelled over whose armour?
3 Which British fabric has an orb trademark?
4 Which Hollywood star was born Natalia Zacharenko?
5 Where were the first Olympics in the southern hemisphere?
6 Richard Doll and Austin Bradford Hill demonstrated what connection?
7 Which ill-fated aircraft was designated LZ 129?
8 Eamon Dunphy and Roddy Doyle have been whose “ghosts”?
What links:
9 Pinot noir; pinot meunier; chardonnay?
10 Freddy’s Revenge; Dream Warriors; The Dream Master; The Dream Child?
11 Nick Faldo (25) and Billy Casper (23.5)?
12 Richard II; Richard III; Henry VIII, twice; James I?
13 Falkirk; Tewkesbury; Salisbury; Bristol?
14 The 120 Days of Sodom and Venus in Furs?
15 Bermuda mystery; Trafalgar; US Department of Defence; Reading theatre?
The answers
1 The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath.
2 Achilles.
3 Harris Tweed.
4 Natalie Wood.
5 Melbourne, 1956.
6 The link between smoking and lung cancer.
7 Hindenburg airship.
8 Roy Keane.
9 Grape blend of (most) champagnes.
10 A Nightmare On Elm Street instalments.
11 Most Ryder Cup points scored for Europe and US.
12 Married Annes: A of Bohemia; A Neville; A Boleyn and A of Cleves; A of Denmark.
13 Stand on (different) river Avons.
14 Sadism and masochism, word origins: books by Marquis de Sade and Sacher-Masoch.
15 Shapes, ascending number of sides: triangle; square; pentagon; hexagon.
