The questions
1 Which advertising slogan was coined for L’Oréal by Ilon Specht?
2 The Moho is the boundary between which parts of the Earth?
3 Brian Poole and the Tremeloes were signed in 1962 in preference to who?
4 What is known locally as the smoke that thunders?
5 Of what did Talleyrand say in 1821 “it is not an event, it is an item of news”?
6 Alex Ferguson got embroiled in a legal dispute over which racehorse?
7 What now extinct bird gathered in the largest ever recorded flocks?
8 Which two southeast Asian countries are mainly Christian?
What links:
9 Chelsea FC; BHS; Homebase; Reader’s Digest; City Link?
10 Torrey Canyon, 1967; Braer, 1993; Sea Empress, 1996?
11 Sagittal; transverse; coronal?
12 Paternoster; Goggle Head; Walking Madonna; Warhorse?
13 100; 250; 350; All-Share; AIM UK 50; SmallCap; techMARK?
14 Wolf, this year; Armadillo; Leopard; Lion?
15 David Remnick; Tina Brown; Robert Gottlieb; William Shawn?
The answers
1 Because I’m worth it.
2 The crust and the mantle (it’s short for Mohorovičić Discontinuity).
3 The Beatles.
4 Victoria Falls.
5 Death of Napoleon.
6 Rock of Gibraltar.
7 Passenger pigeons.
8 Philippines and East Timor.
9 All have been sold for £1.
10 Biggest oil tanker spills off UK.
11 Anatomical planes.
12 Sculptures by Elisabeth Frink.
13 FTSE indices on London Stock Exchange.
14 World Cup mascots: Russia; Brazil; South Africa; Germany.
15 Editors of the New Yorker magazine.
