The questions
1 What body part was given to Gabrielle Berlatier in 1888?
2 In astronomy, quasar is short for what?
3 Which detective lived in London’s Whitehaven Mansions?
4 Tested in 1961, what was the Tsar Bomba?
5 Who can “suck melancholy out of a song as a weasel sucks eggs”?
6 Which reality TV series is filmed on the Ardnamurchan peninsula?
7 What were infamously lost by Lord North?
8 What’s the first British football club to introduce “safe standing”?
What links:
9 Pieter Bruegel the Elder; John Clare; 1381 uprising?
10 Elspeth Champcommunal; Audrey Withers; Alexandra Shulman, currently?
11 Snezka; Rysy; Moldoveanu; Musala; Kékes?
12 Jimson Weed; Black Iris; Ram’s Head, White Hollyhock-Hills; Ladder to the Moon?
13 President John Adams; writer Harvey Pekar; King John; rap mogul Jerry Heller?
14 Friday (high school); Saturday (college); Sunday (national league)?
15 Baffin; Victoria; Ellesmere; Banks; Devon?
The answers
1 Van Gogh’s ear.
2 Quasi-stellar (radio source).
3 Hercule Poirot.
4 Soviet hydrogen bomb (biggest ever).
5 Jaques in As You Like It.
6 Eden.
7 American colonies.
8 Celtic.
9 Peasants: known as P Bruegel; P Poet; Ps Revolt.
10 Edited British Vogue.
11 Highest peaks: Czech Republic; Poland; Romania; Bulgaria; Hungary.
12 Works by Georgia O’Keeffe.
13 Played by Paul Giamatti.
14 Usual schedule for American football.
15 Islands in Canadian Arctic Archipelago.
