The Questions



1 Which artist had an ecstatic revelation at Perpignan railway station in 1963?

2 William Cobbett coined what disparaging nickname for London?

3 What engineering project began in 1880 at Abbot’s Cliff, Kent?

4 Whose revolt was known as the 80 Years’ War?

5 Who said, “Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it”?

6 Which opera features the Polovtsian Dances?

7 Which footballer co-founded the Sporting Chance Clinic?

8 In relation to vaping, what does ENDS stand for?

What links:

9 Partial; annular; total; hybrid?

10 Welch; Robinson; Knavs?

11 Huitzilopochtli; Tlaloc; Chalchiuhtlicue; Quetzalcoatl?

12 Hollywood Hills and the Santa Monica Mountains, via David Lynch?

13 Messenger of day; herald of the morn; blithe spirit; ethereal minstrel?

14 Federer (3); Djokovic (7); Raonic (1)?

15 Virginia Woolf; Gertrude Bell; Princess Grace; Martha Gellhorn; Diane Arbus?

Princess Grace. Photograph: Forum Press/Rex Features



The Answers

1 Salvador Dalí

2 The Great Wen

3 Channel tunnel (abandoned in 1882)

4 Dutch against Spain

5 HAL 9000 computer in 2001: A Space Odyssey

6 Borodin’s Prince Igor

7 Tony Adams

8 Electronic Nicotine Delivery System

9 Types of solar eclipse

10 Original surnames of the past three US First Ladies

11 Aztec deities

12 Mulholland Drive

13 (Sky)lark in verse: Chaucer, Knight’s Tale; Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare; Shelley; Wordsworth

14 Andy Murray’s opponents in grand slam finals

15 Played on screen by Nicole Kidman

