The questions
1 A blend of Tahitian and 18th-century English is spoken on which island?
2 Which medieval artwork features 93 penises?
3 What unit of distance is equal to 3.26 light years?
4 The film Free Solo is about a climb up which rock face?
5 In 1908, who became Britain’s first elected female mayor?
6 Living Coral is which company’s colour of the year?
7 The Battle of the Carmens was a rivalry at what 1988 sporting event?
8 Which jazz musician had the middle name Sphere?
What links:
9 Lady Godiva; Ophelia; Beatrice Portinari; Lilith; Proserpine?
10 Armoured; theropod; sauropod; euornithopod; ceratopsian?
11 It Happened One Night; One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest; The Silence Of The Lambs?
12 Maldives capital; in the Irish Sea; secures a tent; crack in the skin?
13 9 & 23 (grandfather and grandson); 2 & 6 and 41 & 43 (fathers and sons)?
14 Mirth; Sleep; Silk; the Dead; the Spirits?
15 Birr; cedi; kwanza; lilangeni; metical; naira; pula?
The answers
1 Pitcairn (and Norfolk Island).
2 Bayeux Tapestry.
3 Parsec.
4 El Capitan, Yosemite (by Alex Honnold).
5 Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (Aldeburgh).
6 Pantone.
7 Winter Olympics (skaters Katarina Witt and Debi Thomas).
8 Thelonious Monk.
9 Subjects of pre-Raphaelite paintings.
10 Types of dinosaur.
11 Films to win “Big Five” Oscars (best picture, director, actor, actress, screenplay).
12 Masculine terms: Malé; (Isle of) Man; guy (rope); chap.
13 Related US presidents: William Henry/Benjamin Harrison; John/John Quincy Adams and George/George W Bush.
14 The House of… novels: Wharton; Coe; Horowitz; Dostoevsky; Allende.
15 African currencies: Ethiopia; Ghana; Angola; Swaziland; Mozambique; Nigeria; Botswana.
