The questions
1 A lifebuoy from the Lusitania was the first donation to which museum?
2 What was the Viking name for North America?
3 How is Ruth Pratchett described in the titles of two Fay Weldon novels?
4 Who patented his “blasting oil” in 1863?
5 Which bird was the mount of the Hindu god Vishnu?
6 Whose opera Mittwoch aus Licht features musicians in helicopters?
7 What is jumped in the French version of leapfrog?
8 Which computer language was named after the Countess of Lovelace?
What links:
9 Life; head; heart; girdle of Venus; Sun; Mercury; fate?
10 MGM; Peugeot; 1966 World Cup; British eggs; Lyle’s golden syrup?
11 Okinoshima Island, Japan and Mount Athos, Greece?
12 Scissors; eastern cut-off; western roll; straddle; Fosbury flop?
13 Irish revolutionary; Apollo 11 crew member; clarinettist?
14 Ed Sheeran; Wilko Johnson; Will Champion; Mastodon; Sigur Rós?
15 Goldbach’s conjecture; Riemann hypothesis; Collatz conjecture; inverse Galois problem?
The answers
1 Imperial War Museum.
2 Vinland.
3 She-Devil.
4 Alfred Nobel.
5 Garuda.
6 Karlheinz Stockhausen.
7 Sheep.
8 Ada.
9 Lines of the hand in palmistry.
10 Lion mascots and logos.
11 Male only-religious areas.
12 High jump techniques.
13 Various Michael Collins.
14 Musicians making cameos in Game of Thrones.
15 Unsolved maths problems.
