The questions
1 What was revealed by an anonymous letter to Lord Monteagle?
2 Which language is written in the vowelless alef-bet?
3 Which UK overseas territory is the SGSSI?
4 The Internet Is For Porn is a song from which musical?
5 What bird assists a Japanese ukai fisherman?
6 Who is the only goalkeeper to have been European Footballer of the Year?
7 Which poet reduced The Waste Land to five limericks?
8 Bakkwa, pemmican and biltong are types of what food?
What links:
9 Roxana of Bactria; Stateira II of Persia; Parysatis II of Persia?
10 Waal; Nederrijn; Ijssel?
11 Only Fools’ Colin Ball; company equity; Weekend; two kilderkins?
12 Ian McEwan’s Nutshell; Jenny Diski’s Like Mother; Bernice Rubens’ Spring Sonata?
13 LulzSec; 414s; Anonymous; Fancy Bears?
14 Victorian London; WW1 Arabia; 1916 Ireland; revolutionary Russia; 1920s India; WW2 Thailand?
15 California (55); Texas (38); New York and Florida (29)?
The answers
1 The Gunpowder Plot.
2 Hebrew.
3 South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands.
4 Avenue Q.
5 Cormorant.
6 Lev Yashin, 1963.
7 Wendy Cope.
8 Dried meat.
9 Wives of Alexander the Great.
10 Distributaries in the Rhine delta.
11 Parts of a rifle: Trigger; stock; magazine; barrel.
12 Novels narrated by a baby or foetus.
13 Computer hacking groups.
14 David Lean film settings: Oliver Twist and Great Expectations; Lawrence Of Arabia; Ryan’s Daughter; Dr Zhivago; A Passage To India; The Bridge On the River Kwai?
15 US states with the most Electoral College votes.
