The questions
1 What invention famously cost a penny at the 1851 Great Exhibition?
2 Who writes the blog A Don’s Life?
3 In what activity is the pretence of reality known as “kayfabe”?
4 Deems Taylor was the MC in which film?
5 Which initially-mocked theory was proposed in 1912 by Alfred Wegener?
6 Which Russian drink is made from fermented bread?
7 What was Antonia in the title of a bestselling 90s novel?
8 What feat was achieved in 1947 in a Bell X-1?
What links:
9 Al Nahyan; Al Maktoum; Al Qasimi; Al Nuaimi; Al Mualla; Al Sharqi?
10 Whiplash; The Gene Krupa Story; Beware Of Mr Baker?
11 Kariba; Volta; Nasser; Cahora Bassa?
12 Swindon Town; Cheltenham Town; Bristol City?
13 Eight kings; eight queens; 16 bishops; 15 knights; 12 rooks; 19 pawns?
14 Beethoven’s piano sonata No 14; Barry Jenkins’ Oscar winner; a 1993 Pinter play?
15 Junko Tabei; Wanda Rutkiewicz; Ginette Harrison?
The answers
1 Public flush toilets.
2 Mary Beard.
3 Professional wrestling.
4 Fantasia.
5 Continental drift.
6 Kvass.
7 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin.
8 First piloted supersonic flight.
9 Ruling families of the United Arab Emirates.
10 Films about drummers.
11 Largest artificial lakes in Africa.
12 Football teams nicknamed The Robins.
13 Lewis Chessmen.
14 Moonlight.
15 First women to climb world’s three highest peaks: Everest; K2; Kanchenjunga.
