The questions
1 What was planned at the Christmas court at Gloucester in 1085?
2 Homo stupidus was a proposed name for which hominid?
3 North Korea called which comedy film a “blatant act of terrorism”?
4 Which carol is about almsgiving on 26 December?
5 THC is the main psychoactive constituent of what?
6 Where would you find a merrythought?
7 Rediscovered in Surrey this year, what creature is the great fox?
8 Which singer introduced The Snowman animation on TV?
What links:
9 The Greek; angelic friar; little dyer; little barrel?
10 Joan of Leeds; Arkady Babchenko; John Darwin; John Stonehouse?
11 Erithacus rubecula and Dick Grayson?
12 Head; shaft; fletching; nock?
13 Teresa Palmer; Elizabeth Montgomery; Melissa Joan Hart; Alyson Hannigan?
14 Wave; Buzz; Meerkat; Yik Yak; Vine?
15 Rome; Corinth; Ephesus; Philippi; Thessalonica?
The answers
1 Domesday Book/survey.
2 Neanderthal.
3 The Interview.
4 Good King Wenceslas.
5 Cannabis (Tetrahydrocannabinol).
6 On a bird (it’s the wishbone/furcula).
7 Spider.
8 David Bowie.
9 Meanings of artists’ names: El Greco; Fra Angelico; Tintoretto; Botticelli.
10 People who faked their own deaths: medieval nun; Russian journalist; “canoe” man; Labour politician.
11 Robin: bird’s scientific name; Batman’s sidekick.
12 Parts of an arrow.
13 Played TV witches: A Discovery Of Witches; Bewitched; Sabrina The Teenage Witch; Buffy The Vampire Slayer.
14 Defunct social networks.
15 Locations of addressees of St Paul’s epistles.
