The questions
1 What is Earth’s largest living toothed predator?
2 What 1811 work was “a novel in three volumes, By a Lady”?
3 Who is the only person to play in a Super Bowl and the World Series?
4 What London religious building was built on the site of Tothill Fields prison?
5 In which TV show did contestants recall the contents of a conveyor belt?
6 Who founded the Royal Ballet School in 1926?
7 The event horizon is the boundary marking the limits of what?
8 “Saigon … shit” is which film’s first line of dialogue?
What links:
9 Arabist and archaeologist; pioneering Channel swimmer; Munstead Wood gardener; partnered Toklas?
10 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre; The Dead; 21 Grams; Mayfair Witches?
11 Hindu deity Chhinnamasta; St Denis of Paris; Bertran de Born in Dante; Anne Boleyn’s ghost?
12 Trade and Industry Secretary; Northern Ireland Secretary; Ambassador to the US?
13 Emile Berliner; Chris Blackwell; Ahmet Ertegun; Berry Gordy; Alan McGee?
14 Lambeth terminus; Oxfordshire stately home; purple-red colour; 42,195m race?
15 All the virtues of man without his vices (Byron); The Tempest?
The answers
1 Sperm whale.
2 Sense and Sensibility.
3 Deion Sanders.
4 Westminster Cathedral.
5 The Generation Game.
6 Ninette de Valois.
7 Black hole.
8 Apocalypse Now.
9 Gertrudes: G Bell; G Ederle; G Jekyll; G Stein.
10 Film and TV featuring four generations of the Huston family: Walter and John; John and Angelica; Danny; Jack.
11 Carrying their heads: goddess; depiction in art; in Inferno; at Blickling Hall, Norfolk.
12 Roles Peter Mandelson resigned/sacked from.
13 Record company founders: Deutsche Grammophon; Island; Atlantic; Motown; Creation.
14 Named after battles: Waterloo; Blenheim; Magenta; Marathon.
15 Boatswain: from epitaph of poet’s dog, Boatswain; first word spoken in Shakespeare play.
