The questions
1 Where, infamously, did Cookie become Socks?
2 Harriet Tubman was a “conductor” on what?
3 What are subject to the Kimberley Process?
4 What was “the riddle of history solved”, according to Karl Marx?
5 Theologically, what is the Paraclete?
6 Which jazz saxophonist was nominated for a best actor Oscar?
7 Frida Kahlo’s Viva La Vida, Sandías is a painting of what?
8 Which festival is SXSW?
What links:
9 St Michael and the Devil, Coventry; Wilde’s tomb, Paris; Pan, Hyde Park?
10 Welsh border river; power; giant bed; separates Thames and Medway?
11 Sea; giant; Eurasian; hairy-nosed; African clawless; smooth-coated?
12 Germany (16); France (96); USA (50); Italy (20)?
13 Thalestris; Otrera; Penthesilea; Hippolyta; Andromache?
14 The Old Man Of Lochnagar; A Vision Of Britain; Climate Change (Ladybird)?
15 Hanover; Ithaca; Cambridge; New Haven; Providence?
The answers
1 Blue Peter (cat naming scandal).
2 Slavery-era underground railroad.
3 Diamonds (certification scheme).
4 Communism.
5 Holy Spirit.
6 Dexter Gordon (Round Midnight).
7 Watermelons.
8 South By Southwest in Austin, Texas.
9 Jacob Epstein sculptures.
10 Question homophones: Wye; watt unit; of Ware; Hoo peninsula.
11 Otter species.
12 Political divisions: federal states; departments; states; regions.
13 Queens of the Amazons.
14 Books by the Prince of Wales.
15 Home of Ivy League colleges: Dartmouth; Cornell; Harvard; Yale; Brown.
