The questions
1 Which river flows through more countries than any other?
2 In the first world war, what was a “Blighty one”?
3 Tsar Alexander I is a silent role in which opera?
4 What is a blue straggler?
5 Who shot the villainous bailiff Gessler?
6 Edmund Burke called what UK city the “great toyshop of Europe”?
7 Which two rivals agree that they can’t bake a pie?
8 Who took the name Sebastian Melmoth while living in exile?
What links:
9 White Lodge, Richmond in 1894; 4 Rue du Champ d’Entraînement, Paris, in 1972?
10 Malala Yousafzai (17); Lawrence Bragg (25)?
11 Jamestown; Georgetown; Edinburgh of the Seven Seas?
12 Leo McKern; Kenneth Williams; Donald Pleasence; James Frain; Mark Rylance?
13 Spinner; Allotter; Inflexible?
14 Baltimore; Seattle; Philadelphia; Atlanta; Arizona (in US sport)?
15 The Fall Guy; Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air; A Fine Romance; Frasier; Minder and New Tricks?
The answers
1 Danube (10).
2 Minor wound, allowing repatriation.
3 Prokofiev’s War and Peace.
4 Type of star.
5 William Tell.
6 Birmingham.
7 Annie Oakley and Frank Butler (in Anything You Can Do song).
8 Oscar Wilde.
9 Duke of Windsor: birth and death.
10 Youngest Nobel laureates: peace; physics.
11 Main settlements in Overseas Territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha.
12 Played Thomas Cromwell on screen.
13 Fates in Greek myth: Clotho; Lachesis; Atropos.
14 NFL teams named after birds: Ravens; Seahawks; Eagles; Falcons; Cardinals.
15 Star sang the TV theme tune: Lee Majors; Will Smith; Judi Dench; Kelsey Grammer; Dennis Waterman.
