Marlon Brando pictured in black and white, in On the Waterfront, 1954, sitting on railings in front of a large ship.

The questions

1 Won by Bradford that year, what did local jeweller Fattorini make in 1911?
2 What was once defined as the length of three grains of barley?
3 Who was the subject of the 1978 documentary To Mrs Brown, a Daughter?
4 What is the world’s largest unfinished Catholic church?
5 How did Jacob Chansley achieve notoriety on 6 January 2021?
6 The Bitter Lakes are part of which waterway?
7 Which mammals have the thickest fur?
8 Julia Margaret Cameron was a pioneer of which art form?
What links:
9 Aureus; ducat; florin; guinea; noble; unicorn?
10 DH Lawrence; USS George HW Bush; Stalker; Where Eagles Dare?
11 Shadow; persona; anima/animus; self?
12 Albert Dieudonné; Marlon Brando; Rod Steiger; Joaquin Phoenix?
13 1, 2, 6 and 10; 0, 4, 5 and 9; 3, 7, 8, 40, 50 and 60?
14 Greyfriars Bobby; Towser the cat; Winkie the pigeon; Kelpies?
15 The Beatles (54 years); Kate Bush (44 years); Tom Jones (42 years)?

Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront, 1954. Photograph: John Springer Collection/Corbis/Getty Images

The answers

1 FA Cup.
2 Inch.
3 Louise Brown (first test tube baby).
4 Sagrada Família.
5 QAnon Shaman at the Capitol riot.
6 Suez Canal.
7 Sea otters.
8 Photography (portraits).
9 Gold coins: ancient Rome; Venice; Florence; Britain; England; Scotland.
10 Subjects of books by Geoff Dyer: Out of Sheer Rage; Another Great Day at Sea; Zona; “Broadsword Calling Danny Boy”.
11 Jungian archetypes.
12 Played Napoleon on film: Napoléon; Désirée; Waterloo; 2023’s Napoleon.
13 Numbers when written out: three letters; four letters; five letters.
14 Animal statues and sculpture in Scotland: Edinburgh; Glenturret distillery; Dundee; horse heads, Falkirk.
15 Longest gaps between No 1 UK singles.

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