The questions
1 Which award-winning book features a raptor called Mabel?
2 Which Conservative received the Freedom of Liverpool in 2012?
3 In education, what are the Stem subjects?
4 Fancy dress is a feature of which Jewish festival?
5 Who died at Astapovo railway station in 1910?
6 What method of capital punishment was last used in Spain in 1974?
7 The Süper Lig is which country’s top football division?
8 What household item is a solution of sodium hypochlorite?
What links:
9 PayPal; Zip2; Tesla Motors; SpaceX?
10 Durham, 2013; Monmouth, 2002; Bath & Wells, 1991; St Albans, 1980?
11 Marie, Stephen, Paul, Claire, Gail and Angela?
12 Peak XV; Sagarmatha; Chomolungma?
13 Brittany Lincicome; Chun In-gee; Inbee Park; Lydia Ko?
14 Louvre (1st); Bourse (2nd); Temple (3rd); Hôtel-de-Ville (4th)?
15 Satriale’s Pork Store; Big Kahuna Burger; Bluth’s Frozen Banana; Los Pollos Hermanos?
The answers
1 H Is For Hawk by Helen Macdonald.
2 Michael Heseltine.
3 Science, technology, engineering and maths.
4 Purim.
5 Leo Tolstoy.
6 Garrotting.
7 Turkey.
8 Bleach.
9 Companies founded or co-founded by Elon Musk.
10 Translated from to become archbishop of Canterbury: Welby; Williams; Carey; Runcie.
11 Their questions were asked in Jeremy Corbyn’s first PMQs.
12 Mount Everest names: original survey; Nepalese; Tibetan.
13 Women’s golf major winners in 2015.
14 Paris arrondisements.
15 TV and film food outlets: The Sopranos; Pulp Fiction; Arrested Development; Breaking Bad.
