The questions
1 Whose gravestone read, “She Saved The World A Lot”?
2 Who were the recipients of Queen Anne’s Bounty?
3 Spielplatz near St Albans is Britain’s oldest resort for whom?
4 Who published the 1828 American Dictionary Of The English Language?
5 The common and Somali are the two species of which bird?
6 Which writer was “adopted” by Doris Lessing as a teenager?
7 Where is a sgian dubh worn?
8 Which world champions win the St Bride Vase and Geist prize?
What links:
9 St Mary’s; Tresco; St Martin’s; St Agnes; Bryher?
10 Japan (113); Moscow (115); Tennessee (117); Yuri Oganessian (118)?
11 Cimarron; Dances With Wolves; Unforgiven (and no others)?
12 Fishbourne; Lullingstone; Chedworth; Littlecote?
13 Penrose triangle; Escher stairs; devil’s tuning fork; Necker cube?
14 Norton; Triumph; Royal Enfield; Hesketh; Greeves?
15 John Cale; Jamala; Smashing Pumpkins; David Bowie; Prince; Pulp?
The answers
1 Buffy Summers (Vampire Slayer).
2 Church of England clergy.
3 Naturists.
4 Noah Webster.
5 Ostrich.
6 Jenny Diski.
7 Top of the stocking (Highland dress).
8 Men’s and women’s table tennis.
9 Isles of Scilly.
10 Origins of proposed names of new elements: Nihonium; Moscovium; Tennessine; Oganesson.
11 Westerns to win Oscar for best picture.
12 Roman villas in England.
13 “Impossible” objects/optical illusions.
14 British motorcycle manufacturers.
15 Songs with a year in the title: Paris 1919; 1944; 1979; 1984; 1999; Disco 2000.
