The questions
1 Which mountain range is home to the world’s second-highest peak?
2 Which pioneer of conceptualism retired from art to play chess?
3 Who is the only Jesuit to become pope?
4 Which ancient shark grew to around 18 metres long?
5 Baseball is the national sport of which South American country?
6 Which global news organisation is based in Qatar?
7 In the aftermath of a scandal, who changed her family’s name to Holland?
8 Zener cards are used to test for what ability?
What links:
9 Banjul; Nassau; San Salvador?
10 Evert (5); Jaeger; Mandlíková; Graf; Garrison?
11 Corned beef sandwich; golf balls; harmonica; postal covers?
12 Altar Stone; Aubrey Holes; Heel Stone; Slaughter Stone; Station Stones?
13 Squiggly, Glasgow; Mathematical, Cambridge; Winking Eye, Newcastle?
14 Nimue and Viviane; Florence Nightingale; Elaine of Astolat for Tennyson; Bennett’s Mary Shepherd?
15 1; 4; 3; 11; 15; 13; 17; 43?
The answers
1 Karakoram Range (K2).
2 Marcel Duchamp.
3 Pope Francis.
4 Megalodon.
5 Venezuela.
6 Al Jazeera.
7 Constance Lloyd (wife of Oscar Wilde).
8 Extrasensory perception (inc telepathy and clairvoyance).
9 Capitals of countries with definite article in name: The Gambia; The Bahamas; El Salvador.
10 Lost in Wimbledon singles finals v Martina Navratilova.
11 Smuggled into space on Nasa missions.
12 Parts of Stonehenge site.
13 Nicknames of bridges.
14 The Lady … : Lady of the Lake (named, variously); The Lady With the Lamp (nickname); inspired The Lady of Shalott; The Lady in the Van.
15 Numbers with ascending number of letters in their names (3 to 10).
