The questions
1 Which character was injured by an apple thrown by his father?
2 Who thanked Denis Compton in an Oscar acceptance speech?
3 What tragedy happened “On the last Sabbath day of 1879”?
4 Where did left and right, politically, originate?
5 In what sport do two vehicles race over 1/4 mile?
6 The writers’ group PEN was originally an acronym for what?
7 Which South American rodent is the world’s largest?
8 “It’s toasted” was which brand’s advertising slogan?
What links:
9 Abjad; Abugida; Logographic; Syllabic; Alphabetic?
10 Los Angeles, CA; Cook, IL; Harris, TX; Maricopa, AZ?
11 A Study Of Provincial Life; The Weaver Of Raveloe; The Radical?
12 Yeats and Frankel, Ascot; Red Rum, Aintree; Kauto Star and Desert Orchid, Kempton Park?
13 Likud; Hatnuah; Labor; Shas; Yesh Atid; Meretz?
14 Sent to Coventry in 2014; Aristophanes; Iain Banks debut?
15 American Pie; Goodbye Pork Pie Hat; All Those Years Ago; I’ll Be Missing You?
The answers
1 Gregor Samsa (Kafka’s Metamorphosis).
2 Tim Rice.
3 Tay Bridge Disaster (in William McGonagall poem).
4 National Assembly in Revolutionary France.
5 Drag racing.
6 Poets, Essayists, Novelists.
7 Capybara.
8 Lucky Strike cigarettes.
9 Writing systems.
10 Most populous counties in US: LA; Chicago; Houston; Phoenix.
11 George Eliot novel subtitles: Middlemarch; Silas Marner; Felix Holt.
12 Statues of racehorses.
13 Political parties in Israel.
14 Wasps: Wasps RFC moved grounds; The Wasps play; The Wasp Factory novel.
15 Tributes to musicians: Don McLean/Buddy Holly; Charles Mingus/Lester Young; George Harrison/John Lennon; Puff Daddy/The Notorious BIG.
