The questions
1 In Tokyo, Eddy Alvarez became the sixth Olympian to do what?
2 Which French “saint” died in Kent in 1943?
3 What unit is equal to about 5.88 trillion miles?
4 Which promontory was built by Finn McCool?
5 What is thought to be the world’s oldest alcoholic drink?
6 Which 2003 song has spent more than five years in the UK Top 100?
7 What condition was known as woolsorters’ disease?
8 Oprah’s stylist Andre Walker designed a system to categorise what?
What links:
9 UK; Ireland; Malta; Cyprus (on the road)?
10 Rapper Cheryl James; chef Nusret Gökçe; cold war arms talks?
11 Roman deities (6); Greek deities (1); neither (1)?
12 War on the Shore; Battle of Brookline; Miracle at Medinah?
13 Barwick Green; Sailing By; By the Sleepy Lagoon?
14 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame; JFK Library; Louvre pyramid?
15 Ivory-billed woodpecker; Bachman’s warbler; Molokai creeper?
The answers
1 Win medals at both summer and winter games.
2 Simone Weil.
3 Light year.
4 Giant’s Causeway (in legend).
5 Mead.
6 Mr Brightside (The Killers).
7 Anthrax (pulmonary).
8 Hair types.
9 European countries that drive on the left.
10 Salts: Salt from Salt-N-Pepa; nicknamed Salt Bae; SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks).
11 Name origins of the eight planets.
12 Ryder Cup nicknames.
13 Long-running Radio 4 theme music: The Archers; before shipping forecast; Desert Island Discs.
14 Designed by IM Pei.
15 Birds declared extinct in 2021.
