The questions



1 Songwriter Robert Lopez is the 12th person to complete which quartet?

2 What is the UK’s smallest carnivore?

3 What “war” lasted from 3 September 1939 to 10 May 1940?

4 Who published only 10 poems, anonymously, in her lifetime?

5 Which test identifies 16 personality types?

6 Whose residence is the Palazzo Chigi?

7 Which Asian country has the world’s only non-quadrilateral flag?

8 Who is friends with Sniff, Snufkin and the Snorkmaiden?

What links:

9 Zadie Smith novel; Tulisa and Brian Harvey groups; BBC spoof comedy?

10 Free Soil, 1848; Populist, 1892; Progressive, 1912; Reform, 1996?

11 Kiss; Movement In Squares; Pause; Arrest 1; Cataract 3; Shadow Play?

12 Bologna; Oxford; St Andrews; Heidelberg; Salamanca; Uppsala?

13 Links Atlantic and Pacific; penguin; two dwarf galaxies; mapped Venus?

14 Creeper; Elk Cloner; Michelangelo; ILOVEYOU; WannaCry?

15 Hitchcock’s Sabotage; Scott’s The Duellists; Coppola’s Apocalypse Now?

Picked up a point for the penguin? Photograph: Getty Images

The answers



1 EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony).

2 Weasel.

3 The so-called Phoney War.

4 Emily Dickinson.

5 Myers-Briggs.

6 Italian prime minister (Paolo Gentiloni).

7 Nepal.

8 Moomintroll.

9 Named after London postcodes: NW; N-Dubz and East 17; W1A.

10 Third parties in US presidential elections.

11 Works by Bridget Riley.

12 Oldest universities: Italy; England; Scotland; Germany; Spain; Sweden.

13 Named after Magellan: M Strait; M penguin; Magellanic Clouds; M probe.

14 Computer viruses.

15 Films based on Joseph Conrad stories: The Secret Agent; The Duel; Heart of Darkness.