The questions
1 What posthumous first took place in Woking on 26 March 1885?
2 Buckminsterfullerene is a form of which element?
3 Which British TV staple is based on France’s Des Chiffres et des Lettres?
4 Which sport is exempt from US anti-monopoly laws?
5 Ruth Benedict’s The Chrysanthemum And The Sword was a study of what?
6 Who would wear a Sam Browne?
7 In the smartphone scanning code, what do the letters QR stand for?
8 Which writer has a Sussex bin lorry named after him?
What links:
9 Adorno; Horkheimer; Marcuse; Fromm; Pollock?
10 Hungarian; pencil; walrus; toothbrush; Dalí; handlebar?
11 Chicken Knickers; Two Fried Eggs And A Kebab; Beyond The Pleasure Principle?
12 Crab; Eagle; Horsehead; Cat’s Eye; Red Rectangle?
13 Gadwall; garganey; pintail; pochard; scaup; shoveler?
14 Fleetwood Mac; Manfred Mann; Van Halen; Santana; Mike + The Mechanics?
15 Ras ben Sakka; Cape Agulhas; Ras Hafun; Pointe des Almadies?
The answers
1 First legal cremation in the UK.
2 Carbon.
3 Countdown.
4 Baseball.
5 Japan (1946).
6 Soldiers or police (leather belt).
7 Quick response.
8 David Sedaris.
9 Frankfurt School thinkers.
10 Styles of moustache.
11 Artworks by Sarah Lucas.
12 Nebulae.
13 Ducks.
14 Groups named after members who weren’t lead singers.
15 Extreme points of mainland Africa: N, Tunisia; S, South Africa; E, Somalia; W, Senegal.
