The questions
1 Which singer was officially declared a national hero of Barbados in 2021?
2 What made a landfall on 29 August 2005 near Buras-Triumph, Louisiana?
3 Which film immortalised the phrase “chicken jockey”?
4 What is the oldest surviving work of Islamic architecture?
5 Ian Martin was the swearing consultant on which TV series?
6 What are China’s two special administrative regions?
7 Skeet and trap are disciplines of which Olympic sport?
8 What organisation did Harry Pollitt lead for almost 30 years?
What links:
9 An American Tragedy; Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; Mrs Dalloway; The Great Gatsby; The Trial?
10 The Beatles; John Travolta; John Lennon; Frankie Goes to Hollywood; Madonna; Ariana Grande?
11 Reeves; Reeve; Cain; Routh; Cavill; Corenswet?
12 Iquitos; Leticia; Manaus and Macapá?
13 Adam and Eve; Four Horsemen; Praying Hands; Rhinoceros; Young Hare?
14 Giuseppe Savoldi (Napoli) and Olivia Smith (Arsenal)?
15 1960s TV witch; daughter of Prospero; North Carolina’s largest city; Stephen King’s first novel?
The answers
1 Rihanna.
2 Hurricane Katrina.
3 A Minecraft Movie.
4 Dome of the Rock (Jerusalem).
5 The Thick of It.
6 Hong Kong and Macau.
7 Shooting.
8 Communist Party of Great Britain.
9 Novels published 100 years ago: Dreiser; Loos; Woolf; Fitzgerald; Kafka.
10 Had No 1 and No 2 singles at the same time.
11 Played Superman on film and TV.
12 Cities on the Amazon river: Peru; Colombia; Brazil.
13 Albrecht Dürer works.
14 First million-pound male/female footballers (paying club).
15 Sex and the City leads: Samantha; Miranda; Charlotte; Carrie.
