The questions
1 What was recorded at Sarm West Studios on 25 November 1984?
2 Ercole Mattioli and Eustache Dauger are proposed identities for which prisoner?
3 The Norse god Baldr was killed by a spear made of what?
4 Who followed Charles Hamilton and Frank Kennedy?
5 Which tennis venue is named after a first world war fighter pilot?
6 What was “made in Scotland from girders”?
7 Edith Holden’s Nature Notes for 1906 become a bestseller under what title?
8 In London motoring, what is the ULEZ?
What links:
9 Ronna and quetta; ronto and quecto?
10 Cinnamon; ice bucket; devious lick; Kylie Jenner lip?
11 Ghawar (Saudi Arabia); Burgan (Kuwait); Ahvaz (Iran); Grane (Norway)?
12 Carole Hersee; Bubbles the clown; noughts and crosses?
13 Hieroglyphic; demotic; hieratic; Coptic?
14 Histidine; isoleucine; leucine; lysine (and five others)?
15 A Beatle; you; my two front teeth; Dukla Prague away kit?
The answers
1 Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas?
2 Man in the Iron Mask.
3 Mistletoe.
4 Rhett Butler (husbands of Scarlett O’Hara in Gone With the Wind).
5 Roland Garros (Paris).
6 Irn-Bru drink.
7 The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady.
8 Ultra-low emission zone.
9 New SI prefixes adopted in 2022.
10 Viral internet challenges.
11 Major oilfields.
12 Test Card F (central image).
13 Scripts used to write ancient Egyptian.
14 Essential amino acids.
15 All I Want for Christmas is … songs: Dora Bryan; Mariah Carey; Spike Jones; Half Man Half Biscuit.
