The questions
1 Which fictional character is an honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry?
2 “I am the king of the divan” is a rare English line in which song?
3 Where in the body is the atlanto-axial joint?
4 Who are carving up the world in Gillray’s cartoon The Plumb-Pudding In Danger?
5 Worldwide, 318 people are qualified as MW – what is an MW?
6 What does an anadromous fish do?
7 Which two Britons have scored in two European Cup finals?
8 What is the “national fundraising charity for art”?
What links:
9 Brockhaus; Winkler Prins; Larousse; Britannica?
10 Rhode Island; Barry Island; Isles of Dogs, Purbeck, Thanet and Ely?
11 Novels of character and environment; novels of ingenuity; romances and fantasies?
12 100-199 (colours); 200-299 (preservatives); 300-399 (antioxidants)?
13 Neuberger; Hale; Mance; Kerr; Clarke; Sumption (and six others)?
14 Novel Erewhon; TV series Torchwood; film October Sky?
15 Shakespeare; Margaret Thatcher; George W Bush; Roger Federer (twice)?
The answers
1 Sherlock Holmes.
2 Plastic Bertrand’s Ca Plane Pour Moi.
3 Neck.
4 William Pitt and Napoleon.
5 Master of Wine.
6 Migrate from sea to fresh water, or go upstream, to spawn.
7 Celtic’s Tommy Gemmell and Liverpool’s Phil Neal.
8 Art Fund.
9 Encyclopedias: German; Dutch; French; English.
10 Not actually islands.
11 Thomas Hardy’s classification of his novels.
12 Types of E numbers.
13 Justices of the UK Supreme Court.
14 Anagram titles: Nowhere; Doctor Who; based on book Rocket Boys.
15 Parents of twins.
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