The questions
1 Marguerite Yourcenar was the first woman to be elected to which body?
2 Which colour is named after a duck?
3 Comedically, what was “either that or join the Young Conservatives”?
4 In what Paralympic sport do all the players wear blackout masks?
5 Who did Perkin Warbeck claim to be?
6 ICANN is the Internet Corporation for what?
7 Which duel victim is the subject of an award-winning musical?
8 Press TV is which country’s English language network?
What links:
9 The Wanderer; The Seafarer; The Ruin; The Husband’s Message?
10 Gordon Brown; Helen Clark; Kevin Rudd; Andrew Holness; Ehud Barak?
11 Andesite; basalt; obsidian; pumice; rhyolite; scoria?
12 Hoopoe; bobolink; chiffchaff; cuckoo; peewit; whip-poor-will?
13 Parma; Ostrava; Salzburg; Warsaw; Donetsk (closed)?
14 Odsal; Langtree Park; Halliwell Jones; Belle Vue?
15 Judi Dench; Miriam Margolyes; Pauline Collins; Emily Blunt; Jenna Coleman?
The answers
1 Académie française.
2 Teal.
3 Donate blood (Hancock).
4 Goalball.
5 Richard of York (son of Edward IV).
6 Assigned Names and Numbers.
7 Alexander Hamilton.
8 Iran.
9 Old English poems.
10 Recent Labour/Labor party prime ministers: UK; New Zealand; Australia; Jamaica; Israel.
11 Extrusive igneous rocks.
12 Birds named after their calls.
13 Airports named after composers: Verdi; Janáček; Mozart; Chopin; Prokofiev.
14 Rugby league stadiums: Bradford; St Helens; Warrington; Wakefield.
15 Played Queen Victoria: Mrs Brown; Blackadder’s Christmas Carol; Doctor Who; The Young Victoria; Victoria.
