The questions
1 Which agency originated in efforts to suppress rebel Highland clans?
2 Launched in 1957, what type of vessel was the Lenin?
3 Which castle stands on the Isle of Purbeck?
4 Which entertainer’s name regained its hyphen this year?
5 In an opening line, who was “handsome, clever, and rich”?
6 Which Berlin museum is named after an ancient Greek altar?
7 Who were the “four kings” of 1980s boxing?
8 Which play is subtitled A Gay Fantasia On National Themes?
What links:
9 Rn; Xe; Kr; Ar; Cl; Ne; F; O; N; He; H?
10 Lake District; Hebron; Asmara; Yazd; Aphrodisias; Venetian defences?
11 Nina Gold; Amy Hubbard; Jina Jay; Debbie McWilliams?
12 Krio; Sranan; Tok Pisin; Gullah; Pitkern?
13 Cyril the Swan; Filbert the Fox; Cherry Bear; Harry the Hornet?
14 Waugh’s A Handful Of Dust; Lessing’s The Grass is Singing; Banks’ Consider Phlebas?
15 Finches and a frog; capital of Northern Territory; Cambridge college?
The answers
1 Ordnance Survey.
2 Nuclear-powered icebreaker.
3 Corfe Castle, Dorset.
4 Jay-Z.
5 Emma Woodhouse (in Austen novel).
6 Pergamon Museum.
7 Marvin Hagler, Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto Durán and Tommy Hearns.
8 Tony Kushner’s Angels in America.
9 Symbols of gases (at room temperature).
10 New Unesco world heritage sites in 2017.
11 Casting directors.
12 English-based Creole languages.
13 Football mascots: Swansea; Leicester; Bournemouth; Watford.
14 Titles from Eliot’s The Waste Land.
15 Named after Charles Darwin.
