The questions
1 Who landed at Floors Farm, Eaglesham, in Scotland on 10 May 1941?
2 What’s the only Asian country the equator passes through?
3 Who were judged by Paris and what was the result?
4 What did McVan’s To Russia With Love win in March?
5 Which sport is based on the Knickerbocker Rules?
6 Where did villagers read the Tally Ho newspaper?
7 Who patented the process of putting rivets on work trousers?
8 Elizabeth Mackintosh wrote under which two pseudonyms?
What links:
9 Opus Majus (13th century); The Advancement Of Learning (1605); Screaming Popes (1950s)?
10 Belmont; Emley Moor; Crystal Palace; Winter Hill; Pontop Pike?
11 Gene Hackman; John Shea; Michael Rosenbaum; Kevin Spacey?
12 IBEX 35; CAC 40; ISEQ 20; OBX; DAX?
13 Liverpool FC in 1996; Kirk Stevens; Harland Sanders; Alec Guinness as a chemist?
14 Wilkes; Victoria; Queen Maud; Ellsworth; Marie Byrd?
15 Redoutable; Rubis; Triomphant; Barracuda (in development)?
The answers
1 Rudolf Hess.
2 Indonesia.
3 Aphrodite, Athena, Hera (Aphrodite won).
4 Crufts Best in Show (it’s a Scottish terrier).
5 Baseball.
6 In the TV series The Prisoner.
7 Levi Strauss (and Jacob Davis).
8 Josephine Tey and Gordon Daviot.
9 Bacon works: by Roger; book by Francis; paintings by Francis.
10 Tallest UK TV transmitters.
11 Played Lex Luthor on screen.
12 European stock market indices: Spain; France; Ireland; Norway; Germany.
13 White suits: at FA Cup final; snooker player; chicken supremo; The Man In The White Suit film.
14 Lands in Antarctica.
15 Classes of French nuclear submarines.
