The questions
1 What was photographed, for the first time, in M87?
2 Who “always hated me. For what, I don’t know”?
3 The Sycamore Gap tree stands in a dip in what landmark?
4 Jacline Mouraud is credited as a founder of which French movement?
5 Which entertainer is celebrated by a statue in Timperley?
6 What plateau makes up much of central and southern India?
7 Whose Long Count calendar reached the end of a cycle in 2012?
8 What is the fastest shark?
What links:
9 Louisa Adams and Melania Trump?
10 Andrewsarchus; smilodon; thylacoleo; dire wolf?
11 Adroit and dexterous; gauche and sinister?
12 1904 Darracq; 1963 Volkswagen Beetle; 52 Plymouth Fury?
13 Paul Wallot; Marinus van der Lubbe; Norman Foster?
14 1832; 1867; 1884?
15 Antigonus; 42 children of Bethel; Hugh Glass?
The answers
1 Black hole.
2 Sheriff John Brown (in Bob Marley And The Wailers’ song I Shot The Sheriff).
3 Hadrian’s Wall.
4 Gilets jaunes (yellow vests).
5 Frank Sidebottom.
6 Deccan.
7 Mayan.
8 Mako (shortfin).
9 Only foreign-born US First Ladies.
10 Prehistoric carnivores.
11 Words derived from right; left.
12 Title cars in film/fiction: Genevieve; Herbie; Christine.
13 German Reichstag: designed; alleged arsonist; designed rebuild.
14 UK parliamentary reform acts.
15 Mauled by bears: The Winter’s Tale; Bible (2 Kings); The Revenant.
