The questions



1 In 1981, who was declared to have been 70% right, 30% wrong?

2 What degree is a DD?

3 Which countries share the Caribbean island of Saint Martin?

4 A government bounty was introduced in 1953 on what animals?

5 Whose HQ is the J Edgar Hoover Building?

6 The furthest point from the Sun in a planet’s orbit is called what?

7 Carolyn Davidson was paid $35 in 1971 for designing which sportswear logo?

8 The 85m-high statue, The Motherland Calls, is in which city?

What links:

9 Arafura; Coral; Tasman; Timor?

10 Whyteleafe; St Clare’s; Malory Towers?

11 Common or bread; durum; einkorn; emmer; spelt?

12 Louis VII; John Grey; Edward of Westminster; Prince Arthur; Edward Burgh?

13 Pitman writing; Eric Clapton; Ulster heraldic symbol; secret Serbian society?

14 1950 (13); 1954-78 (16); 1982-94 (24); 1998-2018 (32)?

15 Japanese print; pipe; felt hat; straw hat; bandaged ear?



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The answers

1 Chairman Mao.

2 Doctor of Divinity.

3 France and the Netherlands.

4 Grey squirrels.

5 FBI.

6 Aphelion.

7 Nike swoosh.

8 Volgograd, Russia.

9 Seas around Australia.

10 Boarding schools in series by Enid Blyton.

11 Wheat species.

12 First husbands of English queens: Eleanor of Aquitaine; Elizabeth Woodville; Anne Neville; Catherine of Aragon; Catherine Parr.

13 Hands: Shorthand; (nicknamed) Slowhand; Red Hand; Black Hand.

14 Number of teams at postwar Fifa World Cups.

15 In various Van Gogh self-portraits.