The questions
1 What is Ikea’s all-time bestselling item of furniture?
2 Which country had a mosque on its national flag until 2021?
3 101-year-old Bill Greason is the last survivor from which era of baseball?
4 Which sisters shared one eye and one tooth between them?
5 Which nuts are the most radioactive common food?
6 Who became German minister for women and youth in 1991?
7 Which Australian bird has killed humans in the wild?
8 Which fortified wine is an ingredient of tiramisu?
What links:
9 ares; august; job; mobile; polish?
10 Berry; Chowns; Denyer; Ramsay; Spencer?
11 Eildon Hills; Glastonbury Abbey; Mount Etna; Richmond Castle?
12 Jennifer Beals; Jessie Buckley; Helena Bonham Carter; Elsa Lanchester?
13 Azure Window, Malta; Darwin’s Arch, Galápagos; Lovers’ Arch, Italy; Toilet Bowl, Utah?
14 Nocturnal lights; daylight discs; radar-visual; CE1; CE2; CE3?
15 Pilot (1); Taylor Swift (8); Earth, Wind & Fire (9); Guns N’ Roses (11); Kate Bush (12)?
The answers
1 Billy bookcase.
2 Afghanistan.
3 Negro Leagues.
4 Graeae (Greek myth).
5 Brazil nuts.
6 Angela Merkel.
7 Cassowary.
8 Marsala.
9 Words that have a different meaning and pronunciation when capitalised.
10 Green party MPs.
11 Suggested burial/resting places of King Arthur.
12 Played the “bride” of Frankenstein.
13 Celebrated rock formations that collapsed.
14 Scale of UFO sightings/encounters (devised by J Allen Hynek).
15 Songs with months in the title: January; August; September; November Rain; December Will Be Magic Again.
• Question 15 in this quiz was amended on 23 March 2026. In an earlier version the number in parentheses after Guns N’ Roses was 10, when it should have been 11, for November rain.
