The questions
1 Which royal mother and son went on the second and third crusades, respectively?
2 Who described himself as a “Polish nobleman encased in British tar”?
3 Which river flows over the Victoria Falls?
4 How is the French tune Comme d’habitude more widely known?
5 What is the world’s largest library?
6 What was the last imperial dynasty of China?
7 Grace & Favour was a sequel to what sitcom?
8 On what island was Christmas “banned” from 1969 to 1998?
What links:
9 Edward of Woodstock; Edward Teach; Johnny Cash; Griselda Blanco?
10 Charlotte Cooper, tennis; Margaret Abbott, golf; Hélène de Pourtalès, sailing (Paris, 1900)
11 Mount Katahdin, Maine, and Springer Mountain, Georgia?
12 Mouse; wolf; redback; white-tailed; trapdoor; huntsman?
13 Homer’s Aeolia; Aristophanes’s Nephelococcygia; Swift’s Laputa?
14 Marie Colvin; Gabrielle; James Joyce; Sammy Davis Jr; Moshe Dayan?
15 220 and 284; 1184 and 1210; 2620 and 2924; 6232 and 6368?
The answers
1 Eleanor of Aquitaine and Richard I.
2 Joseph Conrad.
3 Zambezi.
4 My Way.
5 Library of Congress (Washington DC).
6 Qing (Manchu).
7 Are You Being Served?
8 Cuba.
9 Known as the Black: B Prince; B beard; Man in B; B widow.
10 First female Olympic champions.
11 Appalachian Trail.
12 Australian spiders.
13 Floating islands/cities: The Odyssey; The Birds; Gulliver’s Travels.
14 Wore eyepatch.
15 Amicable pairs of numbers (each is the sum of the factors of the other).
