The questions
1 What did the Chicago Daily Tribune famously claim on 3 November 1948?
2 What perfume ingredient comes from sperm whales?
3 What usually range in size from 6.5 to 8?
4 The Monument to the Battle of the Nations is in what city?
5 Choupette is which fashion designer’s cat?
6 What art term means “light dark” in Italian?
7 Which TV series is based on the memoirs of Jennifer Worth?
8 With 110 million people, what is Pakistan’s most populous province?
What links:
9 The Rover; The Forc’d Marriage; The City Heiress; Abdelazer?
10 Farleigh; Blue Tit; Czar; Victoria; Mirabelle?
11 Capital of the Benin Empire, formerly, and Tokyo, before 1868?
12 Ethiopian princess; Violetta Valéry; Manrico; Duke’s jester?
13 Sumatran; Bornean; Tapanuli, as of 2017?
14 New Zealand Warriors; Catalans Dragons; Berwick Rangers; Cardiff City; Toronto Blue Jays?
15 Aelfheah; Thomas Becket; Thomas Cranmer; William Laud?
The answers
1 Dewey Defeats Truman.
2 Ambergris.
3 Hats.
4 Leipzig.
5 Karl Lagerfeld.
6 Chiaroscuro.
7 Call The Midwife.
8 Punjab.
9 Plays by Aphra Behn.
10 Plum varieties.
11 Edo.
12 Verdi title characters: Aida; La Traviata; Il Trovatore; Rigoletto.
13 Known species of orangutan.
14 Sports teams in “foreign” leagues.
15 Murdered or executed Archbishops of Canterbury.
