The questions
1 Who was the first king after the Norman conquest of England with an English name?
2 Where is a planet’s aphelion?
3 Which language used to be printed in Fraktur?
4 What is housed in the Petrie Museum at University College London?
5 Which Dickens title character travels to America?
6 “They had no choice” is inscribed on which war memorial?
7 What is Canada’s newest, and largest, territory?
8 Who shared a Nobel prize with Karl Ferdinand Braun for their work on wireless telegraphy?
What links:
9 Postman Pat; Buffy Anne Summers; the Dingles and the Sugdens?
10 Hilary Mantel; Kwame Anthony Appiah; Stephen Hawking; Atul Gawande?
11 1945 (51); 1955 (76); 1992 (179); 2011 (193)?
12 Andy Warhol and John Giorno; Sam Taylor-Wood and David Beckham?
13 Ayre; Glenfaba; Garff; Michael; Rushen; Middle?
14 Botafogo; West Ham Utd; nobody; AEK Athens; South Sydney Rabbitohs?
15 Alice Liddell; Peter Llewelyn Davies; CR Milne?
The answers
1 Edward I.
2 Farthest point in orbit from the sun.
3 German (calligraphic typeface).
4 Egyptian (and Sudanese) archaeology.
5 Martin Chuzzlewit.
6 Animals in War, Hyde Park.
7 Nunavut.
8 Marconi (Physics, 1909).
9 Live in fictional dales: Sunnydale; Greendale; Emmerdale.
10 BBC Reith lecturers since 2014.
11 Growth in UN member states.
12 Filmed sleeping: Sleep film; David video portrait.
13 Sheadings (six divisions) of the Isle of Man.
14 Home teams at Olympic stadiums: Rio; London; Beijing; Athens; Sydney.
15 Models for children’s characters: Alice In Wonderland; Peter Pan; Christopher Robin.
