The questions
1 Who travelled in search of “the hooly blisful martir”?
2 In what combat sport are competitors divided into east and west?
3 Which force is based in Aubagne, Bouches-du-Rhône?
4 In hospitals, the Bristol scale is used to classify what?
5 Which English rugby player has been immortalised as a Barbie doll?
6 What begins at Theresienwiese on the first Saturday after 15 September?
7 The River Irwell separates which two cities?
8 Which band played with red flowerpots on their heads?
What links:
9 Arctic; Blanford’s; corsac; fennec; red; Rüppell’s; Tibetan sand?
10 I (-); II (Caroline); III (Charlotte); IV (Caroline); V (Mary); VI (Elizabeth)?
11 Baloney; jeans; magenta; sardine; tarantula?
12 ABC; Associated-Rediffusion; ATV; Granada?
13 Aphrodite (doves); Freya (cats); Hera (peacocks); Thor (goats)?
14 Celtic shield and horned helmet; bust of Hadrian; Saxon sword; Zulu spearhead?
15 WEB Du Bois; Langston Hughes; Zora Neale Hurston; Augusta Savage?
The answers
1 Pilgrims in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.
2 Sumo.
3 French Foreign Legion.
4 Stools.
5 Ellie Kildunne.
6 Oktoberfest (Munich).
7 Manchester and Salford.
8 Devo.
9 Fox species.
10 Queen consorts of King Georges.
11 Named after places in Italy: Bologna; Genoa; Magenta; Sardinia; Taranto.
12 Original “big four” ITV regional companies.
13 Animals that pulled chariots of Greek and Norse deities.
14 Archaeological finds in the Thames.
15 Major figures of the Harlem Renaissance.
