The questions

1 What did the Chicago Daily Tribune famously claim on 3 November 1948?

2 What perfume ingredient comes from sperm whales?

3 What usually range in size from 6.5 to 8?

4 The Monument to the Battle of the Nations is in what city?

5 Choupette is which fashion designer’s cat?

6 What art term means “light dark” in Italian?

7 Which TV series is based on the memoirs of Jennifer Worth?

8 With 110 million people, what is Pakistan’s most populous province?

What links:

9 The Rover; The Forc’d Marriage; The City Heiress; Abdelazer?

10 Farleigh; Blue Tit; Czar; Victoria; Mirabelle?

11 Capital of the Benin Empire, formerly, and Tokyo, before 1868?

12 Ethiopian princess; Violetta Valéry; Manrico; Duke’s jester?

13 Sumatran; Bornean; Tapanuli, as of 2017?

14 New Zealand Warriors; Catalans Dragons; Berwick Rangers; Cardiff City; Toronto Blue Jays?

15 Aelfheah; Thomas Becket; Thomas Cranmer; William Laud?

Hmmm… where could that monument be? Photograph: Alamy

The answers

1 Dewey Defeats Truman.

2 Ambergris.

3 Hats.

4 Leipzig.

5 Karl Lagerfeld.

6 Chiaroscuro.

7 Call The Midwife.

8 Punjab.

9 Plays by Aphra Behn.

10 Plum varieties.

11 Edo.

12 Verdi title characters: Aida; La Traviata; Il Trovatore; Rigoletto.

13 Known species of orangutan.

14 Sports teams in “foreign” leagues.

15 Murdered or executed Archbishops of Canterbury.