The questions
1 Which rebel was “indeed a tiler of houses, an ungracious patron”?
2 On film, who are Bob, Stuart, Kevin and Otto?
3 What is England’s largest landlocked county?
4 Whitehall 1212 was the original telephone number for what?
5 What began with the Nile’s waters turning to blood?
6 Where did the colonels take power in 1967?
7 La Brea Tar Pits is a palaeontological site in which city?
8 Which star of The Big Bang Theory has a PhD in neuroscience?
What links:
9 Mainland; Yell; Unst; Fetlar; Bressay?
10 Patrick Mouratoglou; Marián Vajda; Lennart Bergelin; Toni Nadal?
11 Snake; jellyfish; racehorse; hunting dog?
12 Columbia; Challenger; Discovery; Atlantis?
13 Tilda Swinton; Harry Styles; Scaramanga; Chandler Bing?
14 Dysfunction; hyperactive; monolingual; sociology; television?
15 Buñol and Haro, Spain; Ivrea, Italy; Galaxidi, Greece; Coxheath, Kent?
The answers
1 Wat Tyler (according to chronicler Froissart).
2 Minions.
3 Shropshire.
4 Scotland Yard/Met police.
5 Plagues of Egypt (in Exodus).
6 Greece.
7 Los Angeles.
8 Mayim Bialik (Amy).
9 Chief islands of Shetland.
10 Celebrated tennis coaches: Serena Williams; Novak Djokovic; Bjorn Borg; Rafael Nadal.
11 Animals in titles of Sherlock Holmes stories: Speckled Band; Lion’s Mane; Silver Blaze; Hound of the Baskervilles.
12 Original four Nasa space shuttles.
13 Real and fictional people with a third nipple.
14 Hybrid words with Latin and Greek roots.
15 Locations of food fight festivals: tomatoes and wine; oranges; flour; custard pies.
