The questions
1 The UK’s video recorders were reset in 1997 in advance of what?
2 Which tree is described by the Woodland Trust as “ancient, morbid, toxic”?
3 Which Midwest university has the biggest sports stadium in the US?
4 Henry and Edward are the title characters of what 1886 novella?
5 Which Hollywood star couldn’t abide wire hangers?
6 In 1413, whose body was moved from King’s Langley Priory to Westminster Abbey?
7 Which races are held over the 37-mile Snaefell Mountain Course?
8 Which soft drink was originally launched as Pickup’s Appetiser?
What links:
9 Cecily stained glass; Meiping vase; Rodin’s Thinker; Temple Pyx fragment; Wagner garden carpet?
10 The King and I; Boy on a Dolphin; My Fair Lady; West Side Story?
11 Fátima; Guadalupe; Knock; La Salette; Walsingham?
12 Sumerian; Akkadian; Babylonian; Assyrian?
13 Bayern’s Müller and WBA’s Brown; middleweight Graham; Air Marshal Harris?
14 I Am Maximus; Tiger Roll; Reynoldstown; Poethlyn?
15 Archaea; Bacteria; Eukarya?
The answers
1 Launch of Channel 5.
2 Yew.
3 University of Michigan.
4 Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (RL Stevenson).
5 Joan Crawford (according to her daughter).
6 Richard II.
7 Isle of Man TT races (and Manx Grand Prix).
8 Tizer.
9 Artefacts in Glasgow’s Burrell Collection.
10 Films in which Marni Nixon provided the singing voice: Deborah Kerr; Sophia Loren; Audrey Hepburn; Natalie Wood.
11 Locations of apparitions of the Virgin Mary (other than Lourdes).
12 Mesopotamian civilisations.
13 Nicknamed Bomber: Gerd and Tony; boxer Herol; Arthur.
14 Double winners of the Grand National.
15 Three domains of cellular life (according to Carl Woese and others).
