The questions
1 Pens and a 42 sign are often left by whose grave in Highgate cemetery?
2 The Dick, Kerr’s Ladies were pioneers in what field?
3 Which Disney film title character contracts rabies?
4 Plymouth is the abandoned capital of what Caribbean island?
5 Which anti-slavery campaigner co-founded the RSPCA?
6 Which record company logo was a Granny Smith?
7 In what ballroom was the German Empire proclaimed in 1871?
8 Invented in 1907, what was the first fully synthetic plastic?
What links:
9 Neapolitan novels; Girl With Balloon; paper proposing Bitcoin?
10 Shaiva; Vaishnava; Shakta; Smarta?
11 Redheugh; King Edward VII; High Level; Swing; Tyne; Gateshead Millennium?
12 Rosie And Jim; Teletubbies; In The Night Garden; Twirlywoos?
13 Uruguay in 2013 and Canada this October?
14 Abbey Grange; Three Gables; Wisteria Lodge; Copper Beeches?
15 Bristlemouth (fish); ant (insect); human (mammal)?
The answers
1 Douglas Adams.
2 Women’s football.
3 Old Yeller.
4 Montserrat (after volcanic eruption).
5 William Wilberforce.
6 Apple Records.
7 Hall of Mirrors, Versailles.
8 Bakelite.
9 Created under pseudonyms: Elena Ferrante; Banksy; Satoshi Nakamoto.
10 Main traditions of Hinduism.
11 Bridges in Newcastle.
12 Children’s TV series by Anne Wood’s Ragdoll Productions.
13 Legalised (recreational) cannabis.
14 Houses in titles of Sherlock Holmes stories.
15 Most abundant animals.
