1 Who burst open in the field he’d just bought?
2 What was regulated by the Hays Code?
3 What reddish-brown colour is the French word for flea?
4 Which decisive 1746 battle lasted only 40 minutes?
5 What mammal is nicknamed the “unicorn of the sea”?
6 What TV series is based on Piper Kerman’s prison experiences?
7 The Empty Quarter is part of which desert?
8 Sphalerite is the chief ore of which metal?
What links:
9 Aurore Dupin; Brontës; Mary Ann Evans; Karen Blixen?
10 Common or viviparous; sand; slowworm?
11 Mahavishnu; Yellow Magic; Penguin Cafe; Electric Light?
12 Misheard line in The Bonnie Earl O’Moray; Sylvia Wright?
13 Sainsbury Wing; Sunley Room; Annenberg Court; Pigott Centre?
14 New York City; Melbourne; Yokohama; Torque; Girona; Sichuan?
15 William I; Ottoman Mehmed II; Afonso I of Portugal; James I of Aragon?
The answers
1 Judas (in Acts Of The Apostles).
2 US film industry (after 1930).
3 Puce.
4 Culloden.
5 Narwhal.
6 Orange is the New Black.
7 Arabian.
8 Zinc.
9 Wrote under male/ambiguous names: George Sand; Bell; George Eliot; Isak Dinesen.
10 Lizards native to the UK.
11 Non-classical “orchestras”.
12 Mondegreens: laid him on the green/Lady Mondegreen; coined term in 1954.
13 Parts of the National Gallery.
14 Football teams owned by City Football Group (plus Manchester City).
15 Nicknamed the Conqueror.
