The questions
1 Whose birth date was crucially miscalculated by Dionysius Exiguus?
2 What art label was coined by Roger Fry for a 1910 exhibition?
3 Who thought, “Maybe Christmas… doesn’t come from a store”?
4 What is the longest nerve in the human body?
5 Which composer managed an orange plantation in Florida?
6 Hamnet Sadler was a beneficiary of whose will?
7 Jonathan’s Coffee-House in Change Alley was the original site of what?
8 Eating what fast food is a Christmas tradition in Japan?
What links:
9 Charles Perrault; Grimm Brothers; Tex Avery; Gillian Cross; Angela Carter?
10 Draw; stud; community card?
11 Square (Theodore Roosevelt); New (FDR); Fair (Truman)?
12 Norway; Wartburg Castle; Cornwall; Nuremberg?
13 Labuan, Sabah and Sarawak; Brunei; Kalimantan?
14 Vaults; Aurora; Tom Odell; Lily Allen; Gabrielle Aplin?
15 Goliath; Holofernes; John the Baptist?
The answers
1 Jesus.
2 Postimpressionism.
3 The Grinch.
4 Sciatic.
5 Frederick Delius.
6 Shakespeare.
7 London Stock Exchange.
8 KFC.
9 Versions of Red Riding Hood.
10 Varieties of poker.
11 Deals, so-called, offered by US Presidents.
12 Settings of Wagner operas: The Flying Dutchman; Tannhäuser; Tristan Und Isolde; Die Meistersinger.
13 Political division of Borneo: Malaysia; Brunei; Indonesia.
14 Sang on John Lewis Christmas adverts 2016-2012.
15 Beheaded in the Bible/Apocrypha.
