1 In 1876, Thomas Watson became the first recipient of what?
2 Who wrote what are known as the “black spider memos”?
3 What has been described as “an illusion glimpsed in the aftermath of victory”?
4 Which river flows through Bordeaux and Toulouse?
5 Who is the only winner of four Oscars for best director?
6 Which game is played on a board with 361 squares?
7 Which Austrian chancellor was assassinated in 1934?
8 Who spent what was later called a “lost weekend” with May Pang?
What links:
9 Jaipur; repeatedly stolen diamond; Angostura bitters; Brighton gangster?
10 Coverdale; Matthew’s; Great; Geneva; Douai?
11 Chris; Vin; Chico; O’Reilly; Lee; Britt; Harry?
12 Anthony Powell; Tracy Chevalier; Donna Tartt?
13 1,435 mm (UK); 1,520 mm (in Russia and Finland); 1,668 mm (in Spain and Portugal)?
14 North Malé; South Malé; Huvadhu; Ari; Thiladhunmati?
15 The following film stars: Vivien Leigh; Elizabeth Taylor; Amanda Barrie; Monica Bellucci?
The answers
1 Telephone call (from Alexander Graham Bell). 2 Prince Charles. 3 Team spirit (according to Steve Archibald). 4 Garonne. 5 John Ford. 6 Go. 7 Engelbert Dollfuss. 8 John Lennon. 9 Pink: pink city; Pink Panther in films; pink in pink gin; Pinkie in Brighton Rock. 10 Early printed Bibles. 11 The Magnificent Seven. 12 Literary works inspired by paintings: Poussin’s Dance to the Music of Time; Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring; Fabritius’s Goldfinch. 13 Standard railway gauges. 14 Atolls in the Maldives. 15 Played Cleopatra on screen.
