The questions
1 What landmark did Victor Lustig “sell” twice?
2 What film is about the murder career of the 10th Duke of Chalfont?
3 What peaked at 17% in November 1979?
4 Which Indian politician was born Edvige Màino in Italy?
5 Burneze Geordie Girl was crowned what in March?
6 Leuchars is the nearest station to which university town?
7 Species, genus, family, order: what comes next?
8 Which borders meet at the Four Corners Monument?
What links:
9 Borchester Echo; Walford Gazette; Weatherfield Gazette; Hotten Courier?
10 Baidu; Alibaba; Tencent?
11 Lawyer; prison officer; army captain; FedEx worker; astronaut; sheriff?
12 Scalene triangle (0); kite (1); rhombus (2); square (4); pentagon (5)?
13 Wizard; Charlotte; Bridget; Diomed; Allabaculia?
14 Spencerian; Copperplate; Zaner-Bloser; D’Nealian; Getty-Dubay?
15 Thomas More; Francis Bacon; William Morris; Charlotte Perkins Gilman; James Hilton?
The answers
1 Eiffel Tower.
2 Kind Hearts and Coronets.
3 Bank of England base rate.
4 Sonia Gandhi.
5 Best in Show at Crufts.
6 St Andrews.
7 Class (taxonomic rank).
8 Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah.
9 Soap newspapers: Archers; EastEnders; Coronation Street; Emmerdale.
10 Chinese internet companies.
11 Tom Hanks roles: Philadelphia; The Green Mile; Saving Private Ryan; Cast Away; Apollo 13; Toy Story.
12 Lines of symmetry.
13 Inaugural winners of racing classics: 2,000 Guineas; 1,000 Guineas; Oaks; Derby; St Leger.
14 Styles of handwriting.
15 Created utopias: Utopia; New Atlantis; News From Nowhere; Herland; Lost Horizon (Shangri-La).
