The questions
1 The Miser’s Warning was the subtitle of an 1844 adaptation of what story?
2 What term for a trendsetter comes from a castrated ram’s neckwear?
3 What is the Beatles’ most streamed song?
4 Caganers are scatological Christmas figurines from which European region?
5 Who earned a maximum of £20 a week until 1961?
6 What is Britain’s most famous cryptid?
7 What February feast marked the end of Christmas in medieval England?
8 Which despot set up a Save Britain Fund in the 1970s?
What links:
9 John Adams; Thomas Jefferson; Aaron Burr; George Clinton?
10 Blow-Up; Funny Face; Rear Window; Salvador; The Bridges of Madison County?
11 Matisse’s Le Bateau; Mondrian’s New York City I; O’Keeffe’s Oriental Poppies?
12 Emily Anderson; William DuVall; Brian Johnson; Adam Lambert?
13 Deer; fox; kite; panda; squirrel; start; wolf?
14 A Woman of Substance; Billy Liar; Bridget Jones’s Diary; The History Boys; V?
15 Ellipse, Washington DC; Place Kléber, Strasbourg; Trafalgar Square, London?
The answers
1 A Christmas Carol by Dickens.
2 Bellwether.
3 Here Comes the Sun (by a big margin).
4 Catalonia.
5 Footballers.
6 Loch Ness monster.
7 Candlemas (or Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary).
8 Idi Amin.
9 First four US vice-presidents.
10 Films about photographers.
11 Artworks that have been hung in galleries the wrong way round.
12 Replaced deceased lead singers: Linkin Park; Alice in Chains; AC/DC; Queen.
13 “Red” animals.
14 Works by Leeds writers: Barbara Taylor Bradford; Keith Waterhouse; Helen Fielding (from Morley); Alan Bennett; Tony Harrison.
15 Locations of “national” Christmas trees: US; France; UK.
