The questions
1 Erotic novel Belinda Blinked is the subject of what hit podcast?
2 Gangkhar Puensum in Bhutan has what mountaineering distinction?
3 What is the hardest tissue in the human body?
4 Mosque Maryam in Chicago is the HQ of which group?
5 Which race meeting features eight Group One races?
6 Who was the highest-placed woman on the BBC’s Greatest Britons poll?
7 Which harbour was depicted in Monet’s Impression, Sunrise?
8 Which poison is contained in the seeds of the castor oil plant?
What links:
9 Donald Trump; Peacemaker; Jacobites; seven-inch singles?
10 Moon; Mars; Mercury; Jupiter; Venus; Sabbath; the Lord?
11 Flask; Starbuck; Stubb; Queequeg; Tashtego; Pip; Ishmael?
12 Five piano concertos; one opera; nine symphonies; 16 string quartets?
13 Robin Hood; Mr Tod; Sharp-Ears; Basil; Reynard?
14 Monte Fumaiolo; Perugia; Rome; Ostia Antica?
15 George Michael; Beryl Bainbridge; Eric Hobsbawm; Lucian Freud; Jeremy Beadle?
The answers
1 My Dad Wrote A Porno.
2 Highest unclimbed peak.
3 Tooth enamel.
4 Nation of Islam.
5 Royal Ascot.
6 Princess Diana (no 3).
7 Le Havre.
8 Ricin.
9 45s: 45th US President; nickname of Colt .45 revolver; ‘45 rebellion; 45 rpm.
10 Days of the week name origins in French and other Romance languages.
11 Crew members of the Pequod in Moby-Dick.
12 Works by Beethoven.
13 Fictional foxes: Disney’s Robin Hood; Beatrix Potter story; Janacek’s Cunning Little Vixen; Brush puppet; in folk tales.
14 River Tiber: rises; flows past; flows through; meets sea.
15 Buried in Highgate cemetery in the last decade.
