The questions
1 Which Nobel prize-winning author was once a grouse beater at Balmoral?
2 EUR is a fascist suburb in which city?
3 Who famously rescued survivors from the shipwrecked Forfarshire?
4 Which football ground straddles the Anglo-Welsh border?
5 Notorious in imperial Russia, what was the knout?
6 How were saints’ days traditionally marked on calendars?
7 Which country’s name was proposed by Rahmat Ali in 1933?
8 Price Tower in Oklahoma is whose only skyscraper?
What links:
9 Card Sharks; Match Game; Family Feud; Hollywood Squares?
10 Wisley, Surrey; Hyde Hall, Essex; Harlow Carr, Yorkshire; Rosemoor, Devon?
11 Common; golden; blood; Lady Amherst’s; great argus; kalij?
12 Rupert Davies; Alec Guinness; Gary Oldman; Simon Russell Beale?
13 Mast; dendritic; natural killer; helper T; B?
14 Valdai Hills and the Caspian Sea?
15 Shake It Off; First Lady of Fleet Street; Jodie Foster; Yorkshire jazz singer; Kristen Stewart?
The answers
1 Kazuo Ishiguro.
2 Rome.
3 Grace Darling.
4 Chester’s Deva Stadium.
5 A whip.
6 Red letters.
7 Pakistan (Pakstan, originally).
8 Frank Lloyd Wright.
9 US gameshows, made in UK as: Play Your Cards Right; Blankety Blank; Family Fortunes; Celebrity Squares.
10 RHS gardens.
11 Pheasants.
12 Played George Smiley on radio, TV and film.
13 Types of cells in blood and immune system.
14 Volga river.
15 Bird surnames: (Taylor) Swift; (Jean) Rook; (Clarice) Starling; (Clare) Teal; (Bella) Swan.
