The questions
1 Songwriter Robert Lopez is the 12th person to complete which quartet?
2 What is the UK’s smallest carnivore?
3 What “war” lasted from 3 September 1939 to 10 May 1940?
4 Who published only 10 poems, anonymously, in her lifetime?
5 Which test identifies 16 personality types?
6 Whose residence is the Palazzo Chigi?
7 Which Asian country has the world’s only non-quadrilateral flag?
8 Who is friends with Sniff, Snufkin and the Snorkmaiden?
What links:
9 Zadie Smith novel; Tulisa and Brian Harvey groups; BBC spoof comedy?
10 Free Soil, 1848; Populist, 1892; Progressive, 1912; Reform, 1996?
11 Kiss; Movement In Squares; Pause; Arrest 1; Cataract 3; Shadow Play?
12 Bologna; Oxford; St Andrews; Heidelberg; Salamanca; Uppsala?
13 Links Atlantic and Pacific; penguin; two dwarf galaxies; mapped Venus?
14 Creeper; Elk Cloner; Michelangelo; ILOVEYOU; WannaCry?
15 Hitchcock’s Sabotage; Scott’s The Duellists; Coppola’s Apocalypse Now?
The answers
1 EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony).
2 Weasel.
3 The so-called Phoney War.
4 Emily Dickinson.
5 Myers-Briggs.
6 Italian prime minister (Paolo Gentiloni).
7 Nepal.
8 Moomintroll.
9 Named after London postcodes: NW; N-Dubz and East 17; W1A.
10 Third parties in US presidential elections.
11 Works by Bridget Riley.
12 Oldest universities: Italy; England; Scotland; Germany; Spain; Sweden.
13 Named after Magellan: M Strait; M penguin; Magellanic Clouds; M probe.
14 Computer viruses.
15 Films based on Joseph Conrad stories: The Secret Agent; The Duel; Heart of Darkness.
