The questions
1 Which magazine was founded to campaign against the Corn Laws?
2 What is the only US state without bald eagles or coyotes?
3 Which saint’s head is on display in Siena?
4 Which fast food company sponsored egg experiments in space?
5 How many deities lived on Mount Olympus?
6 Which Jacobite heroine hosted Boswell and Johnson on Skye?
7 Which sport’s world champion is awarded the Sid Waddell trophy?
8 What is the largest lake wholly within Switzerland?
What links:
9 BBVA; Movistar; Santander; Zara?
10 Because the Night; Blinded by the Light; Fire; Pink Cadillac?
11 Huaorani; Kayapo; Tupi; Yanomami; Yuracaré?
12 Hetty Sorrel; Gwendolen Harleth; Dorothea Brooke; Maggie Tulliver?
13 Cobblers; Hatters; Robins; Sulphurites; Tractor Boys?
14 Brief Encounter; The Seven Year Itch; Shine?
15 Logan Roy (LA Times); Hercule Poirot (New York Times); Mog the cat (the Guardian)?
The answers
1 The Economist.
2 Hawaii.
3 St Catherine (of Siena).
4 KFC.
5 Twelve.
6 Flora MacDonald.
7 Darts.
8 Lake Neuchâtel.
9 Spanish companies.
10 Bruce Springsteen songs recorded by other artists: Patti Smith; Manfred Mann’s Earth Band; Pointer Sisters; Natalie Cole.
11 Indigenous peoples of the Amazon.
12 George Eliot major characters: Adam Bede; Daniel Deronda; Middlemarch; The Mill on the Floss.
13 Nicknames of football Towns: Northampton; Luton; Cheltenham and Swindon; Harrogate; Ipswich.
14 Films prominently featuring Rachmaninov piano concertos.
15 Obituaries of fictional characters.
