The questions
1 What is Ikea’s all-time bestselling item of furniture?
2 Which country had a mosque on its national flag until 2021?
3 101-year-old Bill Greason is the last survivor from which era of baseball?
4 Which sisters shared one eye and one tooth between them?
5 Which nuts are the most radioactive common food?
6 Who became German minister for women and youth in 1991?
7 Which Australian bird has killed humans in the wild?
8 Which fortified wine is an ingredient of tiramisu?
What links:
9 ares; august; job; mobile; polish?
10 Berry; Chowns; Denyer; Ramsay; Spencer?
11 Eildon Hills; Glastonbury Abbey; Mount Etna; Richmond Castle?
12 Jennifer Beals; Jessie Buckley; Helena Bonham Carter; Elsa Lanchester?
13 Azure Window, Malta; Darwin’s Arch, Galápagos; Lovers’ Arch, Italy; Toilet Bowl, Utah?
14 Nocturnal lights; daylight discs; radar-visual; CE1; CE2; CE3?
15 Pilot (1); Taylor Swift (8); Earth, Wind & Fire (9); Guns N’ Roses (10); Kate Bush (12)?
The answers
1 Billy bookcase.
2 Afghanistan.
3 Negro Leagues.
4 Graeae (Greek myth).
5 Brazil nuts.
6 Angela Merkel.
7 Cassowary.
8 Marsala.
9 Words that have a different meaning and pronunciation when capitalised.
10 Green party MPs.
11 Suggested burial/resting places of King Arthur.
12 Played the “bride” of Frankenstein.
13 Celebrated rock formations that collapsed.
14 Scale of UFO sightings/encounters (devised by J Allen Hynek).
15 Songs with months in the title: January; August; September; November Rain; December Will Be Magic Again.
