The questions
1 Which dictator spent his last days in power playing Candy Crush?
2 What children’s TV production company was founded by Anne Wood?
3 Rome’s Ludus Magnus was a training school for whom?
4 Where were Liz Truss and Lord Salisbury both appointed prime minister?
5 Referring to 17 metals, what does REE stand for?
6 In the title of an 1886 novel, what is David Balfour’s predicament?
7 Which fish has the scientific name Electrophorus electricus?
8 What sport is the subject of the documentary Love Means Zero?
What links:
9 Booker T & the MG’s; Manfred Mann; Ben Folds Five?
10 Genoese; Lepers; Millionaires; Rat Stabbers; Red Devils?
11 Moonfleet; Three Men in a Boat; The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; Consider Phlebas?
12 Glengarry Glen Ross; Lawrence of Arabia; The Great Escape; 12 Angry Men?
13 Arbuthnot Latham; Coutts; C Hoare; Weatherbys?
14 Horn; Agulhas; Leeuwin; South East; Whiore?
15 Nicholas Breakspear and Robert Prevost?
The answers
1 Bashar al-Assad.
2 Ragdoll.
3 Gladiators.
4 Balmoral.
5 Rare-earth elements.
6 Kidnapped (Robert Louis Stevenson).
7 Electric eel.
8 Tennis.
9 Groups named after keyboardists.
10 Nicknames (translated) of Argentinian football clubs: Boca Juniors; Newell’s Old Boys; River Plate; Estudiantes; Independiente.
11 Work by writers with consecutive initials: J Meade Falkner; Jerome K Jerome; L Frank Baum; Iain M Banks.
12 Films with no female characters.
13 Private banks.
14 Five southernmost or “Great” capes: Chile; South Africa; Australia; Tasmania; New Zealand.
15 English-speaking popes: Adrian IV and Leo XIV.
