The questions
1 The world’s largest religious monument appears on which national flag?
2 Which competitors step up to the oche?
3 Gian Gastone (d 1737) was the last ruler from which family?
4 Which city almost tripled in size with a 1911 Act of Parliament?
5 Japanese chemist Kikunae Ikeda invented which food additive?
6 Which band buried their Brit award at Stonehenge?
7 What is the densest planet in the solar system?
8 Which dog has a Russian name meaning “cannibal”?
What links:
9 Lawnmowers (Southport); pencils (Keswick); baked beans (Port Talbot)?
10 X in 1932; XXIII in 1984; XXXIV in 2028?
11 Encanto; Romancing the Stone; Clear and Present Danger; Narcos?
12 The Year of the End; The Kingdom by the Sea; Far North; The Call of the Weird?
13 Sydney Opera House; Egg chair; Caravaggio lamp; Margrethe bowl?
14 Vanilla planifolia; Theobroma cacao; Fragaria ananassa?
15 Ethel Barrymore; Vivian Beaumont; Helen Hayes; Lynn Fontanne?
The answers
1 Cambodia (Angkor Wat).
2 Darts players.
3 Medici (duke of Tuscany).
4 Birmingham (Greater Birmingham Act 1911).
5 Monosodium glutamate.
6 KLF.
7 Earth.
8 Samoyed.
9 Unusual British museums.
10 Los Angeles Olympics.
11 Films and TV series set in Colombia.
12 Books by the Theroux family: Anne; Paul; Marcel; Louis.
13 Designed by Danes.
14 Neapolitan ice-cream: scientific names of plants behind vanilla, chocolate and strawberry flavours.
15 Women who gave their names to Broadway theatres.
