The questions
1 What 1991 incident was videotaped by George Holliday?
2 Who sings the Champagne Aria?
3 What optical illusion is named after a peak in the Harz mountains?
4 Which golden couple were coached by Betty Callaway?
5 Whose death was greeted with: “O frabjous day”?
6 What deep-sea diving vessel was invented by Auguste Piccard?
7 Which decimal coin was withdrawn from use after 13 years?
8 Where in the body is the calcaneus?
What links:
9 Chun-Li; Sonya Blade; Jill Valentine; Miranda Keyes; Zelda?
10 Roma in 1984 and Bayern Munich in 2012?
11 Bonanno; Colombo; Gambino; Genovese; Lucchese?
12 Gilead; Oceania; One State; World State?
13 Soldiers of Destiny; Family of the Irish; We Ourselves?
14 Telly Savalas; Lindsay Anderson; Steve Bell; Rudyard Kipling?
15 St Kilda; Edinburgh Old and New Towns; New Lanark; Forth Bridge; Antonine Wall; Neolithic Orkney?
The answers
1 Rodney King police beating.
2 Don Giovanni.
3 Brocken spectre.
4 Torvill and Dean.
5 The Jabberwock (Carroll poem).
6 Bathyscaphe.
7 Halfpenny (1971-84).
8 Foot (heel bone).
9 Female video game characters: Street Fighter; Mortal Kombat; Resident Evil; Halo; Legend of Zelda.
10 Lost European Cup/Champions League finals in home stadium.
11 The Five Families of the New York mafia.
12 Dystopias: Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale; Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four; Zamyatin’s We; Huxley’s Brave New World.
13 Irish political parties (meanings of names): Fianna Fáil; Fine Gael; Sinn Féin.
14 If: number one single; directed film; cartoon strip; poem.
15 Scottish Unesco world heritage sites.
