The questions
1 What meet at the Meeting of the Waters by Manaus?
2 Which sculptor has exclusive rights to the darkest shade of black?
3 What was the Mercury Theatre’s 1938 Halloween radio broadcast?
4 Which British bird of prey is known as the skydancer?
5 Climbing Mount Midoriyama is the aim of which television series?
6 Who wrote the poem To Flush, My Dog?
7 Which crop is destroyed by the boll weevil?
8 Which boxing epic took place in the Stade du 20 Mai?
What links:
9 Bugs Bunny et al; Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons; PSG?
10 Alexandria; Naples; Raj; LA; Frederica?
11 JMB; NEAB; AEB; SEG; ULSEB; OCSEB; MEG?
12 Alligator; Rum; Marauder?
13 John Ford; Joseph L Mankiewicz; Alejandro González Iñárritu?
14 Marathon; Salamis; Plataea; Thermopylae?
15 Sarkisian; Adu; Ciccone; Gudmundsdottir; Adkins; Fenty?
The answers
1 Rio Negro and the Amazon (Solimões).
2 Anish Kapoor (Vantablack).
3 Orson Welles’s War Of The Worlds.
4 Hen harrier.
5 Ninja Warrior.
6 Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
7 Cotton.
8 Rumble in the Jungle (Kinshasa, 1974).
9 Blanc: voiced by Mel B; founded by Raymond B; managed by Laurent B.
10 Literary quartets: Lawrence Durrell; Elena Ferrante; Paul Scott; James Ellroy; AS Byatt.
11 Former examination boards.
12 Adding Red gives Grand National winner.
13 Won consecutive Best Director Oscars.
14 Ancient battles between Greeks and Persians.
15 Surnames of mononymous singers: Cher; Sade; Madonna; Björk; Adele; Rihanna.
