The questions
1 Who won the Booker prize with her first and only novel?
2 Which national flag features five red crosses?
3 Which grandson of Mary Queen of Scots shared her fate?
4 Wheeltappers worked in which industry?
5 Which Bowery club was the centre of New York punk?
6 Which spirit is made from the blue agave plant?
7 “Don’t clap too hard, it’s a very old building” is a line from which play?
8 Which college was founded as the Government School of Design?
What links:
9 Walter Raleigh; HG Wells; Arnold Toynbee; EH Gombrich?
10 Uneven bars and balance beam (artistic); all events (rhythmic)?
11 Sky candle; bone house; wave swine; whale road?
12 Ronnie Carroll; Cliff Richard; Cheryl Baker; Sally Ann Triplett?
13 Heather, M People; Jon, C4 News; Jon, Big Brother 4; Mark, Kingsman actor?
14 Édouard de Laboulaye; Frédéric Bartholdi; Gustave Eiffel?
15 Phone booth; hot tub; police box; DMC-12 car?
The answers
1 Keri Hulme (The Bone People).
2 Georgia.
3 Charles I.
4 Railways.
5 CBGB.
6 Tequila.
7 The Entertainer (John Osborne).
8 Royal College of Art (1837).
9 Wrote histories of the world.
10 Women-only events in Olympic gymnastics.
11 Old English “kennings”: sun; body; ship; sea.
12 Represented the UK twice in Eurovision.
13 Mr Men surnames: Small; Snow; Tickle; Strong.
14 Statue of Liberty: proposed; sculpted; designed internal structure.
15 Time travel devices in film and TV: Bill & Ted films; Hot Tub Time Machine; Doctor Who; Back to the Future.
