The questions
1 Which comic dog is an Abyssinian wire-haired tripe hound?
2 Which party received the most ever votes in a UK election, and when?
3 In US gambling, what is OTB?
4 Which early New Romantic hit namechecks “some New Romantic”?
5 The UK’s nuclear weapons are kept at which base?
6 “… Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom” completes the title of which magazine?
7 What did Blind Pew deliver to Billy Bones?
8 What piece of music technology was the Linn LM-1?
What links:
9 Bruce Reitherman; Louis Prima; Phil Harris; George Sanders; Sebastian Cabot?
10 Pennyroyal; water; apple; pineapple; horse; spear; pepper?
11 Belleek, County Fermanagh and Lowestoft, Suffolk?
12 Eduardo Paolozzi; Isaac Newton; William Blake?
13 Black cat; raven; orangutan; scarab beetle; death’s-head hawkmoth?
14 Alan Johnson; Charles Bukowski; Raymond van Barneveld; Terry Griffiths?
15 Denisova Cave, Siberia; East Rudolf, Kenya; Neander Valley, Germany?
The answers
1 Gnasher (and family) in the Beano.
2 Conservatives in 1992 (over 14m).
3 Off-track betting.
4 Duran Duran’s Planet Earth.
5 HM Naval Base Clyde (aka Faslane).
6 The Watchtower (Jehovah’s Witnesses).
7 Black spot (in Treasure Island).
8 (Programmable) drum machine.
9 Jungle Book voices: Mowgli; King Louie; Baloo; Shere Khan; Bagheera?
10 Varieties of mint.
11 UK’s westernmost and easternmost settlements.
12 British Library: designed 4m sculpture outside; of Newton; based on Blake drawing.
13 Animals in stories of Edgar Allan Poe.
14 Former postal workers.
15 Gave names to early humans: Homo denisova; H. rudolfensis; H. neanderthalensis.
