The questions
1 Which writer lost the use of his left arm at the Battle of Lepanto?
2 Which summer visitor is a brood parasite?
3 What took place in the Upper Room, Mount Zion?
4 What is removed by the Swiss water process?
5 Founded in 1953, what is Britain’s oldest chamber music group?
6 What sport is “violence punctuated by committee meetings”?
7 Where did Bevin Boys work?
8 What does Michiko Kakutani contribute to the New York Times?
What links:
9 Ante cibum; bis die; omni nocte; pro re nata?
10 Pierce of Exton; Richard of Gloucester; Henry of Richmond; Laertes; Macduff?
11 Yutu; Lunokhods; LRV?
12 The Human League; Subbuteo; University Challenge; economics?
13 Betrayal; Merrily We Roll Along; Time’s Arrow; Memento?
14 Cowley; Newsam; Balsall; Cloud; Grafton; Meads?
15 Jess Day; Hannah Horvath; Dan Humphrey; Lorelai and Rory Gilmore?
The answers
1 Miguel de Cervantes.
2 Cuckoo.
3 The Last Supper (traditionally).
4 Caffeine, from coffee beans.
5 Allegri Quartet.
6 American football (according to George Will).
7 Coalmines, 1943-48.
8 Book reviews/lit crit.
9 Full names for Latin abbreviations used in prescriptions.
10 Kill Shakespeare title characters: Richard II; Henry VI; Richard III; Hamlet; Macbeth.
11 Lunar rovers: China; USSR; US.
12 Mentioned in My Perfect Cousin by the Undertones.
13 Play, musical, novel and film employing reverse chronology.
14 English placenames preceded by Temple.
15 TV Girls: New Girl; Girls; Gossip Girl; Gilmore Girls.
