The questions
1 Which novel starts with a failed suicide attempt on Cricklewood Broadway?
2 Which animal was once known as the camelopard?
3 What was carved up by the Sykes–Picot agreement?
4 Which two elements are named after dwarf planets?
5 Which TV series has been pirated more than a billion times this year?
6 Which cricketer scored 199 first-class centuries?
7 Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni is the world’s largest what?
8 Who was overthrown by the 1986 People Power Revolution?
What links:
9 Grant Wood; Nan Wood Graham and Dr Byron McKeeby?
10 Saqqara and Giza; Hellinikon; Teotihuacan and Cholula; Srirangam?
11 Jacques Anquetil, 1963; Bernard Hinault, 1978; Chris Froome, 2017?
12 Shallow Grave; Trainspotting; The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie; Burke And Hare?
13 Tectonic; volcanic; collapse; explosion?
14 Sarah Burton; Elizabeth Emanuel; Lindka Cierach; Norman Hartnell?
15 Human (1); Time Lord (2); octopus (3)?
The answers
1 Zadie Smith’s White Teeth.
2 Giraffe.
3 Middle East/Ottoman Empire.
4 Plutonium and Cerium (Pluto and Ceres).
5 Game Of Thrones.
6 Jack Hobbs.
7 Salt flat.
8 Ferdinand Marcos (the Philippines).
9 American Gothic: painter; sister and dentist (models).
10 Pyramid locations: Egypt; Greece; Mexico; India.
11 Tour de France and Vuelta double.
12 Films set in Edinburgh.
13 Types of earthquake.
14 Designed royal wedding dresses: Kate Middleton; Diana Spencer; Sarah Ferguson; the Queen.
15 Number of hearts.
