The questions
1 What was Rudyard Kipling’s first language?
2 In printing, which colours make up the CMYK model?
3 Which economist has declined the Légion d’honneur?
4 Whose first book was 1898’s The Story Of The Malakand Field Force?
5 What was known to the Arabs as “Chinese snow”?
6 What became the 19th member of the Eurozone in January 2015?
7 Who moved from Fort Baxter to Camp Fremont?
8 What did Orson Welles describe as “the biggest electric train set any boy ever had”?
What links:
9 Willow; marsh; great; blue; coal; crested; bearded?
10 VS Naipaul; Trevor McDonald; Brian Lara; Nicki Minaj?
11 Sidereal; Atomic; Ephemeris; Universal; Dynamical?
12 Fanya Kaplan; Violet Gibson; Lynette Fromme and Sara Jane Moore?
13 Eder; Môhne; Sorpe?
14 Sidney Nolan; Peter Carey; Mick Jagger and Heath Ledger?
15 Angela Berners-Wilson (1994) and Libby Lane (2014)?
The answers
1 Hindi.
2 Cyan, magenta, yellow, key (black).
3 Thomas Piketty.
4 Winston Churchill.
5 Saltpetre (in gunpowder).
6 Lithuania.
7 Sergeant Bilko and co (Phil Silvers Show).
8 RKO studios.
9 Tits seen in the UK.
10 Born in Trinidad.
11 Timekeeping systems.
12 Unsuccessful female assassins: Lenin; Mussolini; Gerald Ford.
13 Rivers/dams attacked in the Dam Busters’ Operation Chastise.
14 Ned Kelly: painted NK; wrote True History of the Kelly Gang; portrayed NK on film.
15 First Church of England female priest and bishop.
