The questions
1 Who was the only woman to report from the D-day frontline?
2 Which prime minister dropped an apostrophe from his surname?
3 Which computer was launched in a 1984 Super Bowl advert?
4 Which bookshop opened in 1879 in Oxford?
5 What is made up of the eye, eyewall and rainbands?
6 The 2024 Olympic medals contain fragments of which landmark?
7 Which blues singer rose from a coffin at the start of concerts?
8 Who fell in love with an ivory statue that he had sculpted?
What links:
9 .cs; .dd; .su; .yu?
10 Petrarchan; Shakespearean; Spenserian?
11 Bob Hope (19); Billy Crystal (9); Whoopi Goldberg (4); Chris Rock (2)?
12 Black garden; narrow-headed; red; southern wood; yellow meadow?
13 Burano; Lido; Mazzorbo; Murano; Torcello?
14 Athens and Leeds; Sheffield Wednesday FC; Tripadvisor; Duolingo?
15 Blenheim Palace; Gori; Lille; Hyde Park, NY?
The answers
1 Martha Gellhorn.
2 Benjamin Disraeli.
3 Apple Macintosh.
4 Blackwell’s.
5 Hurricane/cyclone.
6 Eiffel Tower.
7 Screamin’ Jay Hawkins.
8 Pygmalion.
9 Internet domains of former countries: Czechoslovakia; East Germany; Soviet Union; Yugoslavia.
10 Types of sonnet.
11 Oscars ceremony hosts.
12 Common ant species in the UK.
13 Venetian islands.
14 Owl logos/symbols.
15 Birthplaces of second world war allied leaders: Churchill; Stalin; De Gaulle; Roosevelt.
