The questions
1 In evolutionary terms, what was Luca?
2 Why was Gerhard Schrôder nicknamed the “Audi man”?
3 Which black comedy features the homicidal Brewster family?
4 The 1933 Blaine Act initiated the end of what?
5 Kipling’s poem Recessional was written for what occasion?
6 Whose European Cup finals record is played three, lost three?
7 The Annales school was a movement in which discipline?
8 Which occultist died in Hastings in 1947?
What links:
9 Sion; Geneva; Lyon; Avignon; Arles?
10 Moonlight Serenade; Take The A Train; One O’Clock Jump; Minnie The Moocher?
11 Sophia Loren; Robert De Niro; Roberto Benigni; Marion Cotillard?
12 Wimbledon; Catford; Hendon; White City; Harringay; Walthamstow?
13 Monera; Protista; Fungi; Plantae; Animalia?
14 Child with toy hand grenade; identical twins; Jewish giant; teenage couple?
15 Suspension; terminal; tension; transposition?
The answers
1 Last universal common ancestor.
2 Married four times (four rings badge).
3 Arsenic And Old Lace.
4 Prohibition in the US.
5 Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee.
6 Atlético Madrid.
7 History.
8 Aleister Crowley.
9 Cities on the river Rhône.
10 Big band signature tunes: Glenn Miller; Duke Ellington; Count Basie; Cab Calloway.
11 Acting Oscars for non-English-speaking roles: Two Women; Godfather II; Life Is Beautiful; La Vie En Rose.
12 Closed London greyhound racing stadiums.
13 Five kingdoms of living organisms.
14 Diane Arbus photographs.
15 Types of transmission towers/electricity pylons.
