The questions
1 Which diarist was born on 2 April 1967?
2 What meet at Dartmeet?
3 Which national flag features a Raggiana bird of paradise?
4 Who is the First Commoner of the Land?
5 What is the largest muscle in the human body?
6 Fortune magazine reporter Bethany McLean blew the whistle on what energy scandal?
7 In Japan, hanami is the enjoyment of what?
8 Which European peninsula is named after Tariq ibn Ziyad?
What links:
9 Shared Experience; Renaissance; Northern Broadsides; Steppenwolf; Kneehigh?
10 Corn; borscht; Bible; rust; sun?
11 Galba; Otho; Vitellius; Vespasian?
12 Eastham Locks on the Wirral and Salford Quays?
13 Gene Sarazen; Ben Hogan; Gary Player; Jack Nicklaus; Tiger Woods?
14 Water; bank; Skomer; field; Guernsey; Orkney?
15 Frances Hodgson Burnett; Louisa M Alcott; Charles Dickens; Antoine de Saint-Exupéry?
The answers
1 Sue Townsend’s Adrian Mole.
2 East and West Dart rivers.
3 Papua New Guinea.
4 John Bercow (Commons Speaker).
5 Gluteus maximus.
6 Enron.
7 Flowers, especially cherry blossom.
8 Gibraltar (from Jabal Tariq/Mount Tarik).
9 Theatre companies.
10 Belt regions in the US.
11 Ruled in Rome in AD69 (the Year of the Four Emperors).
12 Manchester Ship Canal.
13 Golfers with career grand slam of modern majors.
14 Voles of the British Isles.
15 Little books: L Lord Fauntleroy/L Princess; L Women; L Dorrit; L Prince.
