The questions
1 How did Denise Darvall unwittingly make medical history in 1967?
2 What holiday is said to mark a meal shared by the Wampanoag people?
3 Which garden bird is the only UK member of the accentor family?
4 What first puzzled readers of the New York World in 1913?
5 Who took the photo Kiss by the Hôtel de Ville?
6 Which city suffered an 872-day siege in the second world war?
7 Which saint is sometimes depicted with a dog’s head?
8 Whose on-stage outburst prompted the founding of Rock Against Racism?
What links:
9 Stream or lava type; northern dialect interjection; Hawaiian bird?
10 Wellington; Churchill; Queen Mother; Admiral Boyce (currently)?
11 Christina Aguilera; Justin Timberlake; Ryan Gosling; Britney Spears?
12 Rialto; degli Scalzi; dell’Accademia; della Costituzione?
13 Doublet; Goodwill; Toytown; High Kingdom?
14 Nerva; Trajan; Hadrian; Antoninus Pius; Marcus Aurelius?
15 Spears and shield; AK-47 and hoe; crane bird; machete; Mokorotlo hat?
The answers
1 Donor in the world’s first successful human heart transplant.
2 Thanksgiving (US).
3 Dunnock.
4 Crossword puzzle.
5 Robert Doisneau.
6 Leningrad (St Petersburg).
7 St Christopher.
8 Eric Clapton.
9 Words of repeated vowels (in OED): aa; ee; oo.
10 Lord Wardens of the Cinque Ports.
11 Mickey Mouse Club alumni.
12 Bridges over the Grand Canal in Venice.
13 Horses ridden in competition by Princess Anne and Zara Tindall.
14 So-called Five Good Emperors of Rome.
15 On African flags: Kenya and Swaziland; Mozambique; Uganda; Angola; Lesotho.
