The questions
1 Louise Platt, in 1936, was the first of 31 screen tests for which role?
2 Which manifesto was launched in Glasgow in 1838?
3 Which Nobel laureate was the “father of chemical warfare”?
4 What is the last surviving member of the family Phascolarctidae?
5 Title 11 of the United States Code relates to what predicament?
6 Which England cricket captain had the initials MCC?
7 Which spread is named after a French casserole dish?
8 Tyrol is split between which two countries?
What links:
9 1936 (41); 1936 (40); 1952 (25); 2022 (73)?
10 Toubkal; largest moth; first vertebra; 97lb weakling?
11 Persuasion; The Silmarillion; Suite Française; The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo?
12 Anthony van Dyck; Ambrose Burnside; Emiliano Zapata; Salvador Dalí?
13 Concordia; Dalhousie; McGill; McMaster; Simon Fraser?
14 Me at the zoo; My Snowboarding Skillz; tribute (all 2005)?
15 Rhubarb; apple seeds; ackee fruit; nutmeg; kidney beans?
The answers
1 Scarlett O’Hara.
2 The People’s Charter (Chartist movement).
3 Fritz Haber.
4 Koala.
5 Bankruptcy.
6 (Michael) Colin Cowdrey.
7 Marmite.
8 Austria and Italy.
9 Years of accession (and monarch’s age): Edward VIII; George VI; Elizabeth II; Charles III.
10 Atlas: highest peak in Atlas range; atlas moth; C1 or atlas; bodybuilder Charles Atlas, as advertised.
11 Posthumous books: Jane Austen; JRR Tolkien; Irène Némirovsky; Stieg Larsson.
12 Have styles of facial hair named after them.
13 Canadian universities.
14 Oldest videos on YouTube.
15 Potentially toxic foods.
