The questions
1 Who was the only US president with a PhD?
2 Which photoshoot took place on 8 August 1969 in NW8?
3 Cornelius Rooster is the mascot of what food brand?
4 Conventional, reversible and horse-drawn are categories in what rural contests?
5 Who was “the most magical saggy old cloth cat in the whole wide world”?
6 Which Nobel prizewinner translated Shakespeare into Russian?
7 Which Asian capital stands on the Chao Phraya river?
8 Which of his works is in the background of Seurat’s The Models?
What links:
9 Status Quo; Van Halen, Rick Wakeman and Eurythmics; Taylor Swift?
10 Burchell’s; Hartmann’s; Grant’s; Grévy’s; Chapman’s?
11 Aston Villa, Everton and Blackburn (1888 and again in 1992)?
12 OCR; AQA; Edexcel?
13 Pendle and Samlesbury, 1612; Belvoir, 1619; Bury St Edmunds, 1645?
14 Six US flags; two golf balls; a golden olive branch; 96 bags of urine, faeces and vomit?
15 Budmouth; Emminster; Melchester; Mellstock; Sandbourne; Shaston?
The answers
1 Woodrow Wilson.
2 The Beatles’ Abbey Road.
3 Kellogg’s Corn Flakes.
4 Ploughing championships.
5 Bagpuss (TV intro).
6 Boris Pasternak.
7 Bangkok.
8 Sunday on La Grande Jatte.
9 1980s album titles: 1982; all 1984; 1989.
10 Zebras.
11 Original members of Football League and Premier League.
12 Examination boards.
13 Witch trials.
14 Some of the items left on the Moon.
15 Places in Hardy’s Wessex.
