The questions
1 Whose business card reads: “Genius. Have Brain. Will Travel”?
2 What are thought to originate in the Oort cloud?
3 Which building is home to the Royal Academy and five learned societies?
4 Earl Spencer, then Ernest Simpson – who next?
5 Who met at the river Elbe, near Torgau, on 25 April 1945?
6 Izora Armstead and Martha Wash made up which disco duo?
7 Who is awarded the Sid Waddell trophy?
8 What makes up chapters 23-40, Book VI of the Mahabharata?
What links:
9 Alpin; Dunkeld; Sverre; Balliol; Bruce; Stuart?
10 Saloon owner Minnie; singer Floria; Cio-Cio San; Magda de Civry?
11 Sergiev Posad; Vladimir; Yaroslavl; Suzdal?
12 Shakespeare spirit; Sylvia Plath poems; Disney mermaid?
13 Greylag; Brent; Canada; Bean; Barnacle?
14 Pyjamas; laughter; oysters; potato; tomato; banana?
15 Lindsay Lohan; Nicolas Cage; Jeremy Irons; Armie Hammer; Tom Hardy?
The answers
1 Wile E Coyote.
2 Comets (long period).
3 Burlington House.
4 Duke of Windsor (husbands of Wallis Simpson).
5 Soviet and American troops.
6 The Weather Girls.
7 Winner of the PDC World Darts Championship.
8 Bhagavad Gita.
9 Scottish royal houses.
10 Puccini title roles: La fanciulla del West; Tosca; Madame Butterfly; La rondine.
11 Golden Ring cities NE of Moscow.
12 Ariel: The Tempest; posthumous collection; Little Mermaid film.
13 Geese.
14 Disagreements in Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off song.
15 Played twins: Parent Trap; Adaptation; Dead Ringers; Social Network; Legend.
