The questions
1 “Nothing odd will do long” was Dr Johnson’s verdict on which novel?
2 What was the first US city to host the Olympics?
3 Which part of the brain is named for its resemblance to a seahorse?
4 Who was protected by the Varangian Guard?
5 Which painting was inspired by sculptor Thomas Woolner’s emigration?
6 Who created the imaginary world of Gondal?
7 Which spirit is produced only in Charente and Charente-Maritime?
8 Gelem, Gelem was adopted as the anthem of which people?
What links:
9 Shite; waki; kyōgen; hayashi (dramatically)?
10 McArthur river, Canada; Olympic Dam, Australia; Krasnokamensk, Russia; Rossing, Namibia?
11 Claire Foy; Helen Mirren; Prunella Scales; Stanley Baxter?
12 MS-13; Barrio 18; Bloods; Crips?
13 Sense And Sensibility; Tarka The Otter; The Hound Of The Baskervilles; Evil Under The Sun; Lorna Doone?
14 Palmerston; Gladstone; Evie; Ossie; Larry?
15 Oxford, 1157; Bordeaux, 1367; Fotheringhay Castle, 1452?
The answers
1 Tristram Shandy.
2 St Louis (1904).
3 Hippocampus.
4 Byzantine emperor.
5 Ford Madox Brown’s The Last Of England.
6 Emily and Anne Brontë.
7 Cognac.
8 Roma.
9 Types of Japanese Noh performer.
10 Major uranium mines.
11 Played Queen Elizabeth II on screen: The Crown; The Queen; A Question Of Attribution; various.
12 LA-founded gangs.
13 Books set in Devon.
14 Whitehall cats.
15 Birthplaces of King Richards.
