The Weekend quiz

Cricket has its nets. What does baseball have? Photograph: Tom Shaw/Allsport

The questions

1 Sleddale Hall, near Shap, Cumbria, features in what cult film?
2 Which queen of England never set foot here?
3 Bob Marley headlined which country’s 1980 independence celebrations?
4 The Lion’s Mound is a monument at which battlefield?
5 What is the baseball equivalent of cricket nets?
6 Arnold Bennett called which reference work “the longest sensational serial ever written”?
7 Charlotte Aitchison sings under what name?
8 What are numbered in the Book of Numbers?
What links:
9 Federico Fellini film; Sue Townsend diary; Julian Barnes history?
10 Authorized (2007) and Golden Horn (2015)?
11 C₁₀H₁₅N; uncertainty principle; Albuquerque?
12 Iron; cobalt; nickel?
13 Bradley Cooper; Christian Bale; Richard Gere; Denzel Washington?
14 W3Catalog; JumpStation; Infoseek;  Magellan; Northern Light?
15 The Graeae and Polyphemus; Jacks of Spades and Hearts, and King of Diamonds; Leela?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The answers

1 Withnail And I (Monty’s cottage).
2 Berengaria (married Richard I).
3 Zimbabwe.
4 Waterloo.
5 Batting cage.
6 Oxford English Dictionary.
7 Charli XCX.
8 Tribes of Israel.
9 Fraction titles: 8½; The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾; A History Of The World in 10½ Chapters.
10 Epsom Derby wins for Frankie Dettori.
11 Breaking Bad TV series: methamphetamine formula; Heisenberg (protagonist’s pseudonym); setting.
12 (Strongly) magnetic naturally occurring elements.
13 American in film: Sniper; Psycho; Gigolo; Gangster.
14 Defunct internet search engines.
15 One-eyed: in Greek myth; in playing cards; in Futurama.