The questions
1 Edward Russell’s manslaughter trial in December 1935 was the last to take place where?
2 Excluding overseas territories, what’s the most southerly city in the EU?
3 International rules football is a hybrid of which two sports?
4 The Cathedral of the Intercession on the Moat is better known as what?
5 Who asked why a raven was like a writing desk?
6 Britains famously made models of what?
7 London, Ontario stands on what river?
8 Who or what is the Red Lady of Paviland?
What links:
9 John Lennon; Culture Club; Massive Attack; Radiohead?
10 Gal; dyne; erg; barye; kayser?
11 West Indies in England, 1939; India in Pakistan, 1984; New Zealand in Sri Lanka, 1987; West Indies in India, 2014?
12 Thomas Becket; John “Red” Comyn; Giuliano de’ Medici; Oscar Romero?
13 The Key; Lucifer; Blue Poles; Convergence; Autumn Rhythm; The Deep?
14 Kodkod; margay; oncilla; caracal; serval?
15 Denmark and UK (2); Norway (5); Spain and Morocco (6); Sweden (16)?
The answers
1 House of Lords.
2 Limassol, Cyprus.
3 Australian rules and Gaelic football.
4 St Basil’s Cathedral, Moscow.
5 Mad Hatter in Alice In Wonderland.
6 Soldiers (and vehicles).
7 The Thames.
8 Around 33,000-year-old human skeleton, found in Wales in 1823.
9 Karma songs: Instant K!; K Chameleon; Kcoma; K Police.
10 Units in CGS (centimetre-gram-second) system: acceleration; force; energy; pressure; wavenumber.
11 Abandoned cricket tours.
12 Killed in church/cathedral: Canterbury; Dumfries; Florence; San Salvador.
13 Paintings by Jackson Pollock.
14 Wild cats.
15 Regnal numbers of monarchs: Margrethe II and Elizabeth II; Harald V; Felipe VI and Mohammed VI; Carl XVI Gustaf.
