The questions
1 Which poet pointed out his name was an anagram of “hug a shady wet nun”?
2 What was the first sport to have fans?
3 Charlemagne is buried in which cathedral?
4 Who is the highest-rated female chess player ever?
5 Nessiteras rhombopteryx was a proposed scientific name for what?
6 The punk musical Lizzie is about which cause célèbre?
7 What was established in 1852 as the Museum of Manufactures?
8 Which Vietnam veteran directed three films about the war?
What links:
9 Perfumery, stationery (ground); telephones, gents’ suits (1st); carpets, travel goods (2nd)?
10 A Bar at the Folies-Bergère; Arnolfini Portrait; Las Meninas; Rokeby Venus?
11 Lydia Monks; David Roberts; Nick Sharratt; Axel Scheffler?
12 26 bones; 33 joints; more than 100 muscles, tendons and ligaments?
13 People of the tradition (87-90%); party of Ali (10-13%)?
14 Ezra Cornell; Sarah Lawrence; Leland Stanford; Matthew Vassar?
15 Trois-Îlets, Martinique in 1763; Hofburg Palace, Vienna in 1791?
