The questions

1 What did Stan Cullis refuse to do in Berlin in 1938?

2 The explosive Armstrong’s mixture is used in which festive item?

3 Whose It Doesn’t Matter Anymore was the UK’s first posthumous No 1 single?

4 Lemaître’s “cosmic egg” was the origin of which theory?

5 What did the Fisher King guard?

6 Which male problem is measured on the Hamilton-Norwood scale?

7 What is the oldest part of the Palace of Westminster?

8 Irene and Vernon Castle were exponents of which art?

What links:

9 Boeing B-17 bomber; LNER 4472 locomotive; spectral ship?

10 Johanna Sigurdardottir, Iceland; Elio Di Rupo, Belgium; Leo Varadkar, Ireland; Ana Brnabić, Serbia?

11 The Glass Blowers; Scaramouche; A Place Of Greater Safety; A Tale Of Two Cities?

12 Law; history; wisdom and poetry; major prophets; minor prophets?

13 Amelia Earhart; Percy Fawcett; John Cabot; Henry Hudson?

14 Ireland and Afghanistan, 2017; Bangladesh, 2000; Zimbabwe, 1992?

15 Cimbalom; goulash; hussar; paprika; shako?



The answers

1 Nazi salute (Germany v England football international).

2 Party poppers.

3 Buddy Holly (1959).

4 Big Bang theory.

5 The Holy Grail.

6 Male-pattern baldness.

7 Westminster Hall (11th century).

8 Ballroom dancing.

9 “Flying” transport: F Fortress; F Scotsman; F Dutchman.

10 Gay prime ministers.

11 Novels set in French Revolution: du Maurier; Sabatini; Mantel; Dickens.

12 Categories of Old Testament books.

13 Missing explorers/adventurers.

14 Awarded Test status in cricket.

15 Words in English from Hungarian.