The questions
1 Which MP was opposed by the Dog Lovers’ party in 1979?
2 In Formula One, what does a yellow and red striped flag indicate?
3 Which rocket’s payload was a Tesla Roadster?
4 What did Sinatra ask for at a “quarter to 3”?
5 Which film features the Hounslow Harriers football team?
6 The Churchill Barriers were built to protect which anchorage?
7 Which verse form traditionally has a 5-7-5 syllable pattern?
8 Which archbishop is the Primate of All Ireland?
What links:
9 Madonna; Easter; Turk’s cap; martagon; tiger; trumpet?
10 Naples; St Petersburg; Venice; Margate; Wellington; Dunedin?
11 Jane Russell (comedy); Doris Day (musical); Robin Weigert (TV)?
12 Love; Peace; Plenty; Truth?
13 Blackburn Pavilion; Snowdon Aviary; Mappin Terraces; Penguin Beach?
14 Niger-Congo; Austronesian; Trans-New Guinea; Sino-Tibetan?
15 Ursula Southeil (Mother Shipton); Elizabeth Barton (Nun of Kent); Joanna Southcott?
The answers
1 Jeremy Thorpe (by Auberon Waugh).
2 Slippery track surface.
3 SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy (February 2018 launch).
4 One for my baby (and one more for the road).
5 Bend It Like Beckham.
6 Scapa Flow (Orkney).
7 Haiku.
8 Armagh (Roman Catholic and Church of Ireland; currently Eamon Martin & Richard Clarke).
9 Types of lily.
10 Places in Florida.
11 Played Calamity Jane: The Paleface; Calamity Jane; Deadwood.
12 Ministries in Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.
13 Parts of London zoo.
14 Language families with the most languages.
15 (Alleged) English prophetesses.
