The questions
1 Which libertine was Count von Waldstein’s librarian?
2 Where is Britain’s only statue of a medieval Jewish woman?
3 Highlife music originated in which country?
4 Which conspiracy theory centred on the Comet Ping Pong restaurant?
5 A prototype of what was first publicly demonstrated in Selfridges in 1925?
6 Which waterway divides Schleswig-Holstein?
7 What animal class is named from the Greek for “double life”?
8 Which race is run between Anchorage and Nome, Alaska?
What links:
9 Alma; Ether; Jarom; Moroni; Nephi; Omni?
10 Charley Says; The Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water; Splink; Tufty; Clunk Click?
11 Chrissie Hynde; The Waitresses; The Black Keys; Devo?
12 Normal; reverse; strike-slip; oblique?
13 Companion of Artemis; mother of Minos; cupbearer of Zeus; daughter of Inachus?
14 Condor; hands; monkey; spider; whale (in southern Peru)?
15 Shakespeare; Sherwood King; Booth Tarkington; Franz Kafka?
The answers
1 Casanova.
2 Winchester (Licoricia).
3 Ghana.
4 Pizzagate (in Washington DC).
5 Television (by John Logie Baird).
6 Kiel Canal.
7 Amphibians.
8 Iditarod (sled dog race).
9 Books of the Mormon Bible.
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10 1970s public information safety films.
11 Musical acts from Akron, Ohio.
12 Types of geological fault.
13 Galilean moons of Jupiter, in Greek myth: Callisto; Europa; Ganymede; Io.
14 Nazca Lines glyphs.
15 Sources for films directed by Orson Welles: The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice, Macbeth and Falstaff (Chimes at Midnight); The Lady from Shanghai; The Magnificent Ambersons; The Trial.
