The questions
1 Where did the Heisei era begin on 8 January 1989?
2 What’s been judged to be too close to Got To Give it Up?
3 Who was the last Frenchman to win the Tour de France?
4 Robert Raikes initiated what religious educational movement in 1780?
5 How is the online celebrity Tardar Sauce better known?
6 Which Russian statue sits on the 1,000,000+ kg Thunder Stone?
7 For what is the Bookseller/Diagram prize awarded?
8 Who was Benjamin Harrison’s predecessor and successor as US president?
What links:
9 William Gladstone; US Republicans; Celtic or Everton; Frederick Augustus?
10 Red (8); pink (17); dark blue (12); light blue (24)?
11 Fool’s webcap; destroying angel; autumn skullcap; deadly dapperling?
12 Sky Bet; npower; Coca-Cola; Nationwide?
13 Lanthanum; cerium; promethium; samarium; erbium (and 12 others)?
14 Gordon’s gin; vodka; Kina Lillet; lemon peel?
15 Albert Dieudonné; Rod Steiger; Vladislav Strzhelchik; Marlon Brando; Trevor Howard?
The answers
1 Japan (with new emperor).
2 Blurred Lines song.
3 Bernard Hinault (1985).
4 Sunday schools.
5 Grumpy Cat.
6 Bronze Horseman/Peter the Great in St Petersburg.
7 Oddest book title of the year.
8 Grover Cleveland.
9 Grand Old: GO Man; GO Party; GO football team song; GO Duke of York.
10 Scoring squares on Scrabble board.
11 Poisonous fungi.
12 Sponsors of football’s Championship.
13 Rare earth elements.
14 Vesper Martini cocktail in Casino Royale.
15 Played Napoleon on screen.
