The questions



1 A lifebuoy from the Lusitania was the first donation to which museum?

2 What was the Viking name for North America?

3 How is Ruth Pratchett described in the titles of two Fay Weldon novels?

4 Who patented his “blasting oil” in 1863?

5 Which bird was the mount of the Hindu god Vishnu?

6 Whose opera Mittwoch aus Licht features musicians in helicopters?

7 What is jumped in the French version of leapfrog?

8 Which computer language was named after the Countess of Lovelace?

What links:

9 Life; head; heart; girdle of Venus; Sun; Mercury; fate?

10 MGM; Peugeot; 1966 World Cup; British eggs; Lyle’s golden syrup?

11 Okinoshima Island, Japan and Mount Athos, Greece?

12 Scissors; eastern cut-off; western roll; straddle; Fosbury flop?

13 Irish revolutionary; Apollo 11 crew member; clarinettist?

14 Ed Sheeran; Wilko Johnson; Will Champion; Mastodon; Sigur Rós?

15 Goldbach’s conjecture; Riemann hypothesis; Collatz conjecture; inverse Galois problem?

How is Ed Sheeran linked to Wilko Johnson? Photograph: PA

The answers



1 Imperial War Museum.

2 Vinland.

3 She-Devil.

4 Alfred Nobel.

5 Garuda.

6 Karlheinz Stockhausen.

7 Sheep.

8 Ada.

9 Lines of the hand in palmistry.

10 Lion mascots and logos.

11 Male only-religious areas.

12 High jump techniques.

13 Various Michael Collins.

14 Musicians making cameos in Game of Thrones.

15 Unsolved maths problems.