The questions
1 Which Anglo-Scottish battlefield has a visitor centre in a phone box?
2 Mary is which Mary’s only completed novel?
3 What is Saccharomyces cerevisiae used to make?
4 Where did Gennady Padalka spend a record 879 days?
5 Which Shakespeare play is set in Austria?
6 Who was the last Commons speaker to wear a wig?
7 Which restaurant chain began in 1987 in Johannesburg?
8 HM Naval Base Clyde is better known as what?
What links:
9 Block; Bones; Bun; Bung; Chip; Dip (and five more)?
10 Clément Rodier; William Cavendish; Maria Ann Smith; Matthew Bramley?
11 Mount Hu, Liaoning and Jiayu Pass, Gansu?
12 Humboldt; Japanese flying; cock-eyed; giant; colossal?
13 Glass Town; Angria; Gondal?
14 Saharan nomads; map book; club and ball sport; horseback sport?
15 Blenheim Palace; Hyde Park, New York; Gori, Russian Empire?
The answers
1 Flodden (1513).
2 Mary Wollstonecraft.
3 Bread and beer/wine (yeast).
4 In space (Mir and ISS).
5 Measure for Measure.
6 Bernard Weatherill.
7 Nando’s.
8 Faslane.
9 Families in the original Happy Families game.
10 Gave their names to fruits: Clementine; Cavendish banana; Granny Smith apple; Bramley apple.
11 Great Wall of China (east to west, Ming dynasty wall).
12 Types of squid.
13 Fictional worlds created by the young Brontë siblings.
14 VW models: Touareg (Tuareg people); Atlas; Golf; Polo.
15 Birthplaces of wartime Big Three: Churchill; Roosevelt; Stalin.
