1 What was finished by Franz Süssmayr?
2 Zora Neale Hurston was a major figure in what cultural blossoming?
3 What has topped the Big Garden Birdwatch for the past 16 years?
4 What was the world’s second postage stamp?
5 Which US state has 21 official languages?
6 What was created in Prague by Rabbi Judah Loew?
7 Which Japanese art form has a name meaning “song, dance, skill”?
8 Which poison comes from the nux vomica tree?
What links:
9 Whig (4); Democratic-Republican (4); National Union (2); Unaffiliated (2); Federalist (1)?
10 Laws of cricket; the ultimate question; Meera Syal; Mark King?
11 Diego Garcia; Peros Banhos; Danger; Salomon; Three Brothers?
12 Cadbury, 1996-97; Harveys Furniture, 1997-2012; Compare the Market, since 2012?
13 The Kiss; Bird in Space; Sleeping Muse; The Newborn; Endless Column?
14 Suetonius; Giorgio Vasari; Samuel Johnson?
15 Claudette Colbert; Vivien Leigh; Elizabeth Taylor; Amanda Barrie?
Answers
1 Mozart’s Requiem.
2 Harlem Renaissance.
3 House sparrow.
4 Two penny blue (1840).
5 Alaska.
6 Golem (in legend).
7 Kabuki.
8 Strychnine.
9 Affiliations of US presidents (other than Democrat or Republican).
10 42: number of laws; answer in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; starred in The Kumars at No 42; lead singer of Level 42.
11 Chagos Islands (British Indian Ocean Territory).
12 Sponsors of Coronation Street.
13 Sculptures by Constantin Brâncuși.
14 Wrote Lives of the…: Caesars; Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects; Poets.
15 Played Cleopatra in films.
