The Questions
1 Which artist had an ecstatic revelation at Perpignan railway station in 1963?
2 William Cobbett coined what disparaging nickname for London?
3 What engineering project began in 1880 at Abbot’s Cliff, Kent?
4 Whose revolt was known as the 80 Years’ War?
5 Who said, “Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it”?
6 Which opera features the Polovtsian Dances?
7 Which footballer co-founded the Sporting Chance Clinic?
8 In relation to vaping, what does ENDS stand for?
What links:
9 Partial; annular; total; hybrid?
10 Welch; Robinson; Knavs?
11 Huitzilopochtli; Tlaloc; Chalchiuhtlicue; Quetzalcoatl?
12 Hollywood Hills and the Santa Monica Mountains, via David Lynch?
13 Messenger of day; herald of the morn; blithe spirit; ethereal minstrel?
14 Federer (3); Djokovic (7); Raonic (1)?
15 Virginia Woolf; Gertrude Bell; Princess Grace; Martha Gellhorn; Diane Arbus?
The Answers
1 Salvador Dalí
2 The Great Wen
3 Channel tunnel (abandoned in 1882)
4 Dutch against Spain
5 HAL 9000 computer in 2001: A Space Odyssey
6 Borodin’s Prince Igor
7 Tony Adams
8 Electronic Nicotine Delivery System
9 Types of solar eclipse
10 Original surnames of the past three US First Ladies
11 Aztec deities
12 Mulholland Drive
13 (Sky)lark in verse: Chaucer, Knight’s Tale; Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare; Shelley; Wordsworth
14 Andy Murray’s opponents in grand slam finals
15 Played on screen by Nicole Kidman
