The questions
1 Who claimed to have studied at the Sheboygan Conservatory of Music?
2 Bekaa Valley is which country’s main wine region?
3 Which birds can fly for 10 months without landing?
4 The Panacea Society were followers of which prophetess?
5 The Nice model is a theory for the evolution of what?
6 Which sport has an annual Magic Weekend?
7 What was sited according to the Residence Act of 1790?
8 What is celebrated, mathematically, on 14 March?
What links:
9 Spring Awakening; Mrs Warren’s Profession; The Children’s Hour; Ghosts?
10 Tropo; strato; meso; thermo; iono; exo?
11 Prosper Mérimée heroine; Hart Dyke’s mononym; fruity headwear?
12 Gladiator statue; orrery; air pump; kitten?
13 Brighton; Sheffield; Barcelona; Minions; Paul?
14 Nerva; Trajan; Hadrian; Antoninus Pius; Marcus Aurelius?
15 BWV; Hob.; K; D; MWV; WWV?
The answers
1 Sugar, Joe/Josephine and Jerry/Daphne in Some Like It Hot.
2 Lebanon.
3 Swift.
4 Joanna Southcott.
5 Solar system.
6 Rugby league.
7 Washington DC.
8 Pi Day (3/14).
9 Censored plays.
10 –sphere, layers of Earth’s atmosphere.
11 Carmen; Miranda; Carmen Miranda.
12 Subjects of candlelit paintings by Joseph Wright (of Derby).
13 Places in Cornwall.
14 Rome’s so-called Five Good Emperors.
15 Composer catalogue abbreviations: JS Bach; Haydn; Mozart; Schubert; Mendelssohn; Wagner.
