The questions
1 The KGB still operates in which European country?
2 Which style of jazz singing puts words to existing melodies or solos?
3 Who now sponsors the Women’s Prize for Fiction?
4 Which cabinet member is the son of a flying ace and a ballerina?
5 Which language is known as Ivrit to its speakers?
6 Who receives the Commissioner’s Trophy?
7 “Curst be he that moves my bones” is written on whose tomb?
8 After Crete, what is the next largest Greek island?
What links:
9 JS Bach; GF Handel; Domenico Scarlatti?
10 Yde; Lindow; Tollund; Weerdinge; Old Croghan; Gallagh?
11 Dandie Dinmont; Bedlington; Glen Of Imaal; Skye; Cairn?
12 Victoria Wood; Marti Caine; Lenny Henry; Michael Barrymore; Les Dennis?
13 Lion; eagle; cannon; cockerel; castle?
14 Through The Looking Glass; The Luzhin Defence; The Royal Game; The Big Four?
15 Olfactory; optic; facial; trochlear; vagus; hypoglossal (and six others)?
The answers
1 Belarus.
2 Vocalese (not scat).
3 Baileys.
4 Iain Duncan Smith.
5 Hebrew.
6 Baseball World Series winners.
7 Shakespeare.
8 Euboea.
9 Born in 1685.
10 Location of bog body discoveries.
11 Terrier breeds.
12 Appeared on ITV’s New Faces.
13 Emblems on London Premier League club badges: Chelsea; Crystal Palace; Arsenal; Spurs; West Ham.
14 Chess-themed fictional works: Lewis Carroll; Vladimir Nabokov; Stefan Zweig; Agatha Christie.
15 Cranial nerves.
