The questions
1 Before Liz Truss, who was the last prime minister never to contest a general election?
2 Which Egyptian pharaoh’s tomb was identified in 2025?
3 What is the England’s southernmost city?
4 In Chinese, what animal’s name means “big bear cat”?
5 The rock kimberlite is renowned as a source of what?
6 Carina Vogt, in 2014, was the first woman to win Winter Olympic gold in what event?
7 What game was played by the “automaton” the Mechanical Turk?
8 Which burger chain was named after Jerry Murrell and his four sons?
What links:
9 Barbican, 1985; Palace theatre, 1985 to 2004; Sondheim theatre from 2004?
10 Bismar; pendulum; Roberval; steelyard; torsion?
11 Chandra; Coyolxauhqui; Máni; Selene; Thoth?
12 Horticultural skill; inexperience; jealousy; nausea; permanent resident card?
13 Behind the Scenes at the Museum; South Riding; The Secret Garden; Wuthering Heights?
14 1215; 1216, 1217, 1225; 1297?
15 Unchained Melody; Wherever I Lay My Hat; Light My Fire?
The answers
1 Neville Chamberlain.
2 Thutmose II.
3 Truro.
4 Giant panda.
5 Diamonds.
6 Ski jumping.
7 Chess.
8 Five Guys.
9 Venues for the London production of Les Misérables.
10 Types of scales/balance.
11 Moon deities: Hindu; Aztec; Norse; Greek; Egyptian.
12 Green associations.
13 Novels set in Yorkshire: Kate Atkinson; Winifred Holtby; Frances Hodgson Burnett; Emily Brontë.
14 Magna Carta: original and subsequent re-issues/confirmations.
15 No 1 cover versions by Young singers: Jimmy, 1955; Paul, 1983; Will, 2002.
