The questions
1 Which British mammal is also known by the Latin name Felis silvestris grampia?
2 Which music-themed resort is in Stowe, Vermont?
3 Clive Stafford Smith founded which legal charity?
4 Why was Deolali transit camp in India notorious?
5 Voices In My Ear was whose “ghost-written” autobiography?
6 What is the world’s largest passenger airliner?
7 Which nonexistent place is mentioned in the song Don’t Stop Believin’ by the band Journey?
8 Which BBC magazine ceased publication in 1991?
What links:
9 Kroeber; Kindred; Klapka; Keith; and Krishnaswami?
10 Cuckoo (clarinet); elephant (double bass); swan (cello); and fossils (xylophone)?
11 Peter Pan; Take Five; God Bless America; and Dorothy Parker’s works?
12 Loire; Adour; Dordogne; Garonne; Bidasoa; and Oiartzun?
13 Suzi Quatro; Sweet; Mud; Smokie; and Toni Basil?
14 Maria Teresa de Filippis; Divina Galicia; Lella Lombardo; Desiré Wilson; and Giovanna Amati?
15 Eye; eyewall; and rainbands?
The answers
1 Scottish wildcat.
2 Trapp Family Lodge.
3 Reprieve.
4 It drove soldiers “doolally”.
5 Doris Stokes (medium).
6 Airbus A380.
7 South Detroit.
8 The Listener.
9 Writers’ middle names: Ursula K Le Guin; Philip K Dick; Jerome K Jerome; GK Chesterton; RK Narayan.
10 Representations in Saint-Saëns’s Carnival Of The Animals.
11 Copyright donated to charity: Great Ormond Street; Red Cross; Scouts; NAACP.
12 Rivers flowing into Bay of Biscay.
13 Hits written by Chinn and Chapman.
14 Female F1 drivers.
15 Parts of tropical cyclone/hurricane.
• This column was amended on 22 February 2016 to correct the spelling of Saint-Saëns, not Saint-Saîns.
