The questions
1 Which writer won the Booker prize and two Oscars?
2 Which city is married to the sea each year?
3 Where in the body is the ethmoid bone?
4 Which former African leader is an inmate of Frankland prison?
5 Barci the cockerel is the symbol of what restaurant chain?
6 A burned stone is a hazard in what sport?
7 Joual is spoken where in North America?
8 In 1824, geologist William Buckland gave the first scientific description of what?
What links:
9 Andy Murray, 2016; Chris Hoy, 2012; Mark Foster, 2008; Kate Howey, 2004?
10 I’m Desperate; 60 Minutes Silence; Confess All On Video; The Garden?
11 CBSO; Berlin Philharmonic; LSO, from 2017?
12 Over-elaborate form of writing; birth into privilege; run of luck; Haze or Rain?
13 Joe; Manco; Blondie?
14 Styria; Vorarlberg; Carinthia; Burgenland?
15 Martha the passenger pigeon; Celia the Pyrenean ibex; Benjamin the Tasmanian tiger?
The answers
1 Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.
2 Venice.
3 Skull.
4 Charles Taylor (ex-President of Liberia).
5 Nando’s.
6 Curling.
7 Canada (Quebec).
8 Dinosaur fossil.
9 GB flag bearer at Summer Olympics.
10 Artworks by Gillian Wearing.
11 Musical appointments of Simon Rattle.
12 Purple expressions: p prose; born in the p; p patch; p, musically.
13 Nicknames of Clint Eastwood’s Man With No Name in the Dollars trilogy.
14 States in Austria.
15 Endlings, last of their species.
