The questions
1 Which 67-year-old, a niece of two kings, was executed in 1541?
2 What is the most common organ transplant?
3 What were tenterhooks originally used for?
4 Who wrote about her Wonderful Adventures… In Many Lands?
5 Which pirates were named after a type of barbecue?
6 The Harvard-Yale boat race takes place on what river?
7 What religious relic was the Holy Prepuce?
8 Steve Jobs ran which company from 1985-97?
What links:
9 Egyptian hieroglyphics; Demotic Egyptian; Ancient Greek?
10 Cold Water; Happy Talk; Three Times A Lady; Mouldy Old Dough?
11 BG; CU; EXT; INT; LS; POV; VO; ZI?
12 Cannonball; Hispi; January King; Napa; Savoy?
13 Edinburgh; Goulburn, New South Wales; Stockwell; Colwyn Bay; Drogheda; Chester?
14 £20 a week; £17 a week in the summer (until 1961)?
15 Unhappiness; happiness; female child; male child; Ag; Au?
The answers
1 Margaret Pole (niece of Edward IV and Richard III).
2 Kidney transplant.
3 Holding cloth on a tenter frame.
4 Mary Seacole (autobiography).
5 Buccaneers (from boucan).
6 Thames River (in New London, Connecticut)
7 Jesus’s foreskin.
8 NeXT.
9 Languages on the Rosetta stone.
10 Hits for acts with military ranks: Major Lazer; Captain Sensible; Commodores; Lieutenant Pigeon.
11 Script abbreviations: background; closeup; exterior; interior; long shot; point of view; voiceover; zoom in.
12 Cabbage varieties.
13 Birthplaces of James Bond actors Sean Connery; George Lazenby; Roger Moore; Timothy Dalton; Pierce Brosnan; Daniel Craig.
14 English football’s maximum wage.
15 Magpie rhyme (one for sorrow; joy; girl; boy; silver; gold).
