The questions
1 Judith and her husband are the only singing roles in which opera?
2 What suffered from a “rapid unscheduled disassembly” last year?
3 What Dorset landmark is claimed to be an image of Hercules?
4 Which poet climbed Mont Ventoux in Provence in 1336?
5 What was first won in 1903 by the Boston Americans?
6 Whose Gannex raincoat is in the Isles of Scilly museum?
7 In the first world war, what was the dual monarchy?
8 Which lake was created in 1730 by the damming of the River Westbourne?
What links:
9 Clanton; McLaury; Claiborne; Earp; Holliday?
10 Kraków; Munich and Freising; Buenos Aires?
11 Barbizon hotel, NY (1981); Somerville College, Oxford (1994); Olympic artistic swimming (2024)?
12 Bird’s Nest; Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn; Stools; Sunflower Seeds?
13 Lyrids; Perseids; Leonids; Geminids?
14 1789; 1830; 1848; 1871?
15 A Fistful of Dollars; Drive; Layer Cake; Tenet; The Seven Year Itch?
The answers
1 Duke Bluebeard’s Castle (Bartók).
2 SpaceX’s Starship rockets (two, they blew up).
3 Cerne Abbas giant.
4 Petrarch.
5 World Series baseball.
6 Harold Wilson.
7 Austria-Hungary.
8 Serpentine (Hyde Park).
9 Surnames of the nine participants in the gunfight at the OK Corral.
10 Archbishoprics of last three popes: John Paul II; Benedict XVI; Francis.
11 Female spaces admitting men.
12 Works by Ai Weiwei.
13 Meteor showers.
14 French revolutions.
15 Films with unnamed central characters.
