The questions
1 Which sleuth’s middle name was Death?
2 What game is played on a Riley Aristocrat?
3 Who declared, “You like me!” in her 1985 Oscar acceptance speech?
4 Lancashire Blues is which TV programme’s theme tune?
5 Which marine mammal can grow a tusk up to 10 feet long?
6 The Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda are the main sources for which mythology?
7 Which giants of science and politics were born on 12 February 1809?
8 Which football club’s badge is based on a Royal Mile mosaic?
What links:
9 Genius; Magnificent; Impressive; Splendid; Great; Phew?
10 Cardiac; skeletal; smooth?
11 Albatross; Baltimore Bullet; Frog King; Iron Lady; Madame Butterfly; Thorpedo?
12 R38; Dixmude; R101; Akron; Hindenburg?
13 Donald III; Ethelred the Unready; Henry VI; Edward IV?
14 Adele Bloch-Bauer; Emilie Flöge; Hermine Gallia; Fritza Riedler?
15 Ammunition; culprit; ginkgo; Imogen; ptarmigan; syllabus?
The answers
1 Lord Peter Wimsey (Dorothy L Sayers).
2 Snooker (billiards etc).
3 Sally Field.
4 Coronation Street.
5 Narwhal.
6 Norse/Scandinavian.
7 Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln.
8 Heart of Midlothian.
9 Winning comments on Wordle game (one to six attempts).
10 Types of muscle tissue in the body.
11 Nicknames of swimmers: Michael Gross; Michael Phelps; Kosuke Kitajima; Katinka Hosszú; Susan O’Neill; Ian Thorpe.
12 Airship disasters.
13 Kings of England and Scotland who reigned twice.
14 Portraits painted by Klimt.
15 Words (and a name) that derive from spelling mistakes.
