The questions
1 Whose final message was, “Come on. Big village. Be quick. Bring packs”?
2 What is the ninth largest object in the solar system?
3 Kept in a French vault, what is Le Grand K?
4 Which musical couple are buried at Wahnfried?
5 What pet is Carassius auratus?
6 Which order was suppressed in 1312 by Pope Clement V?
7 The Spirit of Troy is the marching band of which institution?
8 In a Dostoevsky novel, who is Prince Myshkin?
What links:
9 Bass; Society; Tuamotu; Gambier; Marquesas; Austral?
10 Berthe Morisot; Marie Bracquemond; Eva Gonzalès; Mary Cassatt?
11 Braunau am Inn; Predappio; Gori; Shaoshan?
12 Lord Erroll’s murder; racing in Hong Kong; Sally Wainwright drama?
13 Herostratus; Robert Hubert; Marinus van der Lubbe?
14 Rothera; Halley VI; Bird Island; King Edward Point; Signy?
15 Okarito; North Island brown; Southern brown; Great and Little spotted?
The answers
1 George Custer.
2 Ganymede (moon of Jupiter).
3 International prototype of the kilogram.
4 Richard and Cosima Wagner.
5 Goldfish.
6 Knights Templar.
7 University of Southern California.
8 The Idiot.
9 Island groups making up French Polynesia.
10 Female impressionist painters.
11 Dictators’ birthplaces: Hitler; Mussolini; Stalin; Mao.
12 Happy Valley: in Kenya’s HV set; HV racecourse; HV TV series.
13 Accused arsonists: Temple of Artemis, Ephesus; Great Fire of London; Reichstag.
14 UK Antarctic research stations.
15 Kiwi species.
