The questions
1 Which two Britons hold athletics outdoor world records?
2 Which beagle came from the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm?
3 From what did Peg Entwistle jump to her death in 1932?
4 Whose height was six cubits and a span?
5 Which Suffolk port has been described as Britain’s Atlantis?
6 Which Lord Of The Rings actor had actually met Tolkien?
7 What disease was traced to a pump in Broad Street, Soho?
8 Who followed Cathy, Emma and Tara?
What links:
9 Klee; Kokoschka; Kandinsky; Dix; Beckmann; Nolde (Munich, 1937)?
10 Maritime in Latin; ice in German; white in Russian; of the pole in English?
11 Nathanael West; John Wyndham; Frederick Forsyth; Paul Scott?
12 Blue (upper case); red, yellow-orange, blue, green, red (all lower case)?
13 Dukkha; Samudaya; Nirodha; Magga?
14 Finnish; Estonian; Hungarian?
15 Bondfield; Wilkinson; Horsbrugh; Castle; Hart?
The answers
1 Jonathan Edwards and Paula Radcliffe (triple jump and various).
2 Snoopy (and siblings, in the Peanuts cartoon).
3 The H in the Hollywood(land) sign.
4 Goliath.
5 Dunwich (lost to coastal erosion).
6 Christopher Lee.
7 Cholera (by Dr John Snow).
8 Purdey (in The Avengers/New Avengers).
9 Exhibited in Nazi Degenerate Art exhibition.
10 Polar bear (meanings of name).
11 The Day Of The… novels: Locust; Triffids; Jackal; Scorpion.
12 Colours of the Google logo.
13 Four noble truths of Buddhism.
14 Three main Uralic languages.
15 First five female cabinet ministers.
