The questions
1 Where are the words of Caroline Bingley now in circulation?
2 Who or what was the first world war hero Cher Ami?
3 Which sprinter went to six Olympics with Jamaica and one with Slovenia?
4 What tinned meat was introduced by Hormel in 1937?
5 What steam service runs between Sheffield Park and East Grinstead?
6 If Sheena is a punk rocker, what is Suzy?
7 Hendrik Verwoerd was the architect of what policy?
8 In container transport, what unit is a TEU?
What links:
9 Papaver somniferum; Erythroxylum coca; Nicotiana tabacum; Areca catechu?
10 Jimmy Gulzar and Stephen Belafonte; Christian Horner; David Beckham?
11 The Smiler; the Big One; Colossus; the Ultimate; Vampire?
12 Roman emperors from AD117 and 138; French minister of war, died 1932?
13 Sea (1); London (2); Pastoral (3); Antarctica (7)?
14 Ishtar Terra; Aphrodite Terra; Lada Terra?
15 Jane Smiley’s A Thousand Acres; Edward St Aubyn’s Dunbar; Kurosawa’s Ran?
The answers
1 Jane Austen £10 note.
2 Carrier pigeon.
3 Merlene Ottey.
4 Spam.
5 Bluebell Railway.
6 A headbanger (Ramones songs).
7 Apartheid.
8 Twenty-foot equivalent unit.
9 Psychoactive plants: opium poppy; coca bush; tobacco; betel nut.
10 Husbands of Spice Girls: Mel B; Geri; Victoria.
11 Rollercoasters: Alton Towers; Blackpool; Thorpe Park; Lightwater Valley; Chessington.
12 Gave names to fortifications: Hadrian’s and Antonine Walls; Maginot Line.
13 Vaughan Williams symphonies.
14 Highland land masses of Venus.
15 Works inspired by King Lear.
