The questions
1 Which poet confessed he’d “never spent much time” in Shropshire?
2 Who are Catboy, Owlette and Gekko?
3 Why did Jacobites raise a glass to a mole?
4 Which Audrey Hepburn film title became possible in 2017?
5 T rex and triceratops lived on what modern continent?
6 Who joined Artsebarsky and Krikalev on a 1991 space mission?
7 Which warriors used the “buffalo horns” formation?
8 Friedrich Fröbel devised what form of education?
What links:
9 Haydn Nos 93-104 and Vaughan Williams No 2?
10 Big Freeze; Big Crunch; Big Change; Big Rip?
11 Bowling Green, Lower Manhattan, and Sleepy Hollow, Westchester?
12 1366 (Leuven); 1664 (Strasbourg); 1759 (Dublin)?
13 Pepo; pome; hesperidium; berry; drupe?
14 Deepdale; Bayview; St Mary’s; The Hawthorns?
15 The Mature Age; The Waltz; Sakuntala; Bust of Rodin?
The answers
1 AE Houseman.
2 PJ Masks (children’s TV series).
3 Injured William III (horse tripped on a molehill).
4 Breakfast at Tiffany’s (with opening of café).
5 North America.
6 Helen Sharman (first Briton in space).
7 Zulus.
8 Kindergarten.
9 London symphonies: nickname; formal title A London Symphony.
10 Theories of how the universe will end.
11 Broadway.
12 Years on beers (year on label and brewery location): Stella Artois; Kronenbourg; Guinness.
13 Types of fruit.
14 Home grounds of “compass point” football teams: Preston North End; East Fife; Southampton; West Bromwich Albion.
15 Works by French sculptor Camille Claudel.
