The questions
1 Actor James Cromwell went vegan on the second day of shooting which film?
2 Which ancient civilisation had three seasons: growth, harvest and inundation?
3 The word sauna comes from which language?
4 In a recent announcement, who were “your English teacher and your gym teacher”?
5 What political delaying tactic is named after a Spanish pirate?
6 The Japanese spider is the largest species of what marine creature?
7 What name is given to a National Hunt flat race?
8 What title is shared by paintings by Constable and Bosch?
What links:
9 Bullet ant; tarantula hawk wasp; warrior wasp?
10 Milano Cortina; Los Angeles; French Alps; Brisbane?
11 DeFazio and Feeney; Truman and Adler; Hanson and Bergstein; Shipman and West?
12 Change, 2024; Get Brexit Done, 2019; Forward, Together, 2017?
13 Maia and Segedunum?
14 H, I, O and X (and no other capital letters)?
15 Joyce Banda; Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah; Ellen Johnson Sirleaf; Sahle-Work Zewde?
The answers
1 Babe.
2 Egypt.
3 Finnish.
4 Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce (engagement announcement).
5 Filibuster.
6 Crab.
7 Bumper.
8 The Hay Wain/Haywain.
9 Rated maximum 4 on the Schmidt sting pain index.
10 Hosts of the next four Olympic Games.
11 Sitcom title pairings: Laverne & Shirley; Will & Grace; Grace and Frankie; Gavin & Stacey.
12 Winning parties’ UK general election manifestos.
13 Hadrian’s Wall (forts at either end).
14 Letters with both vertical and horizontal lines of symmetry.
15 Female African presidents: Malawi; Namibia; Liberia; Ethiopia.
