The questions
1 Who was criticised for his “silly, flat and dishwatery utterances” by the Chicago Times in 1863?
2 Which film features Maria and her robot double?
3 Who was a national champion aged eight, nine and 12?
4 What meet at Cape Agulhas?
5 Which stationery items are measured in C sizes?
6 Which country’s official languages are Hiri Motu, Tok Pisin and English?
7 Stott Hall Farm stands in the middle of which motorway?
8 Who speaks the “All the world’s a stage” monologue?
What links:
9 Socrates; Lavoisier; Marat; Sieyès; Pope Pius VII; Napoleon?
10 Hintze Hall; Earth Hall; Darwin Centre; Flett Theatre?
11 Jane Cairns; Margaret Allen; Lana Turner; Betty Kern; Ava Gardner; Kathleen Winsor; Doris Dowling; Evelyn Keyes?
12 Thailand, 2006; UK, 1897 and 2012; Austria-Hungary, 1908?
13 Opening of Nineteen Eighty-Four; Jason Voorhees; Last Supper; Blur and Black Sabbath?
14 Fermat; Mersenne; Proth; factorial; twin; primorial?
15 Pripyat, Ukraine; Craco, Italy; Centralia, Pennsylvania; Hashima Island, Japan?
The answers
1 Abraham Lincoln (re Gettysburg Address).
2 Fritz Lang’s Metropolis.
3 Red Rum (Grand National wins).
4 Atlantic and Indian Oceans.
5 Envelopes.
6 Papua New Guinea.
7 The M62.
8 Jaques in As You Like It.
9 Subjects of paintings by Jacques-Louis David.
10 Parts of the Natural History Museum.
11 Married bandleader Artie Shaw.
12 Monarch’s diamond jubilees.
13 Thirteen: clocks striking 13; killer in Friday The 13th films; 13 attended; album titles.
14 Types of prime number.
15 Abandoned places.
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