The questions
1 Which English cheese cannot be made in its namesake village?
2 What did George W Bush reportedly describe in January 2017 as “some weird shit”?
3 What is the UK’s only aquatic songbird?
4 In the church year, what is Ordinary Time?
5 Clara Rockmore was a virtuoso on what electronic instrument?
6 Which actor injured his achilles tendon while playing Achilles?
7 Carting Lane, off the Strand, has London’s last type of what lamp?
8 Which 1980 TV docudrama caused a crisis in Anglo-Saudi relations?
What links:
9 Chief mourner at Nelson’s funeral; chair of British Railways; Spider-Man?
10 Batgirl; Coyote v Acme; Nothing Lasts Forever; The Day the Clown Cried?
11 Barbary; Gold; Grain; Ivory; Pepper; Skeleton?
12 Infant; schoolboy; lover; soldier; justice; pantaloon; second childishness?
13 Wooderson; Bannister; Ibbotson; Coe; Ovett; Cram; Kerr?
14 Juliet; Reach Out I’ll Be There; December 1963?
15 Middlemarch; Das Kapital; The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; Watch Out!?
The answers
1 Stilton (must be made in Derbyshire, Leicestershire or Nottinghamshire).
2 Trump’s first inauguration speech.
3 Dipper.
4 Period outside the seasons of Advent, Christmas, Lent or Easter.
5 Theremin.
6 Brad Pitt (in film Troy).
7 Sewer gas (destructor) lamp.
8 Death of a Princess.
9 Various Peter Parkers.
10 Films that were shelved, unreleased or abandoned unfinished.
11 Names (some historical) for coastal areas of Africa.
12 Seven Ages of Man, as defined in As You Like It.
13 Male British runners who have held the world mile record.
14 No 1 hits for The Four … bands: Pennies; Tops; Seasons.
15 Books by residents of Highgate Cemetery: George Eliot; Karl Marx; Douglas Adams; Jeremy Beadle.
