The questions
1 In 1605, who said, “A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy”?
2 Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote was the only novel reviewed by which literary giant?
3 What is transported by the Nord Stream?
4 Which Italian city is nicknamed “the learned”, “the fat” and “the red”?
5 When did 18-year-olds first vote in a UK general election?
6 Which creatures “defeated” the army in 1932 in Campion, Western Australia?
7 Which baseball teams contest the Subway Series?
8 The Morse bar is in which hotel?
What links:
9 Sun; Hansa; Sigma Sound; Polar; Electric Lady; Black Ark?
10 Woody Johnson, US; Jean-Pierre Jouyet, France; Peter Wittig, Germany?
11 Pacific Rose; Gala; Envy; Braeburn; Jazz?
12 Melilla and Ceuta; Kaliningrad; Büsingen; Campione d’Italia?
13 The Sea; The Blue Train; The Yellow Room; Edwin Drood?
14 Grosse Pointe; Tokyo; 18th-century Versailles; California; Civil War Virginia?
15 Common; veined; giant Pacific; mimic; California two-spot; seven-arm?
The answers
1 Guy Fawkes.
2 Samuel Johnson.
3 Gas (pipeline from Russia to Germany).
4 Bologna (for its university, food and politics).
5 1970.
6 Emus (so-called emu war).
7 New York Mets and New York Yankees.
8 The Randolph, Oxford.
9 Recording studios: Memphis; Berlin; Philadelphia; Stockholm; New York; Kingston.
10 Ambassadors to the UK.
11 Apple varieties developed in New Zealand.
12 Exclaves: Spain; Russia; Germany; Italy.
13 The Mystery Of… novels: Bram Stoker; Agatha Christie; Gaston Leroux; Charles Dickens.
14 Sofia Coppola film settings: The Virgin Suicides; Lost In Translation; Marie Antoinette; The Bling Ring; The Beguiled.
15 Species of octopus.
