The questions
1 Which epic poem is about a hero of the Geats?
2 Who would exhibit the Moro reflex?
3 Which charity was founded by Emily Williamson as the Plumage League?
4 Which mountain is known locally as Yr Wyddfa?
5 Where is the Ruperto Carola University?
6 Who were the state-owned serfs of ancient Sparta?
7 What, according to JR Seeley, was acquired “in a fit of absence of mind”?
8 Which pioneering Austrian psychiatrist died in Aberdeen in 1937?
What links:
9 Ears; butterfly; spindle; tongue; barley; twine; quill?
10 American football (16); basketball (82); ice hockey (82); baseball (162)?
11 Woodhouse; Bovary; Frost; Peel?
12 Lake Chad; Aral Sea; Lake Poopó; Lake Urmia?
13 Dynamo; Torch; Jubilee; Husky; Market Garden?
14 Diego Maradona in Rosario and John Coltrane in San Francisco?
15 Dall’s; Harbour; Vaquita; Burmeister’s; Spectacled; Finless?
The answers
1 Beowulf.
2 Newborns.
3 RSPB.
4 Snowdon.
5 Heidelberg.
6 Helots.
7 British Empire.
8 Alfred Adler.
9 Pasta name origins: orecchiette; farfalle; fusilli; linguine; orzo; spaghetti; penne.
10 Regular season games for teams in major US leagues.
11 Fictional Emmas: Jane Austen; Flaubert; Marvel comics; The Avengers.
12 Shrinking bodies of water: Africa; Central Asia; Bolivia; Iran.
13 WW2 operation codenames: Dunkirk; North Africa invasion; Dieppe raid; Sicily invasion; Netherlands/Germany.
14 Churches founded in their honour.
15 Types of porpoise.
