The questions
1 What are counted “Yan, tan, tether, mether...”?
2 Which shop was built from the timbers of HMS Impregnable and Hindustan?
3 Where in the body is the organ of Corti?
4 Which film features the bank-robbing Ex-Presidents?
5 What is the only distillery on the Isle of Skye?
6 Which album cover shows goats being fed at San Diego zoo?
7 What was founded by Octavia Hill, Robert Hunter and Hardwicke Rawnsley?
8 What shape are Gugelhupf and ciambella cakes?
What links:
9 Anastasia Steele; Yossarian; Winston Smith; Richard Hannay?
10 Scottish (14); Italian, French and Portuguese (all three); Chilean (one)?
11 St John’s, Newfoundland and Clifden, Galway, 14-15 June 1919?
12 Becquerel; gray; sievert?
13 Broom; Cinnabar; Scalloped Oak; Puss; Jersey Tiger?
14 Air and Space; Art; Natural History; American History; African American History (19th, in 2016)?
15 Wentworth; Litchfield; Stone Park; Larkhall?
The answers
1 Sheep (in Swaledale).
2 Liberty.
3 Cochlea/inner ear.
4 Point Break.
5 Talisker.
6 Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys.
7 The National Trust.
8 Ring-shaped.
9 In numbered novels: Fifty Shades Of Grey; Catch-22; Nineteen Eighty-Four; The Thirty-Nine Steps.
10 Premier League managers, wins by nationality.
11 First nonstop transatlantic flight (by Alcock and Brown).
12 Derived SI units measuring radiation: radioactivity; absorbed dose; dose equivalent.
13 British moths.
14 Smithsonian museums.
15 Fictional women’s prisons: Prisoner: Cell Block H; Orange Is The New Black; Within These Walls; Bad Girls.
