1 What was finished by Franz Süssmayr?

2 Zora Neale Hurston was a major figure in what cultural blossoming?

3 What has topped the Big Garden Birdwatch for the past 16 years?

4 What was the world’s second postage stamp?

5 Which US state has 21 official languages?

6 What was created in Prague by Rabbi Judah Loew?

7 Which Japanese art form has a name meaning “song, dance, skill”?

8 Which poison comes from the nux vomica tree?

What links:

9 Whig (4); Democratic-Republican (4); National Union (2); Unaffiliated (2); Federalist (1)?

10 Laws of cricket; the ultimate question; Meera Syal; Mark King?

11 Diego Garcia; Peros Banhos; Danger; Salomon; Three Brothers?

12 Cadbury, 1996-97; Harveys Furniture, 1997-2012; Compare the Market, since 2012?

13 The Kiss; Bird in Space; Sleeping Muse; The Newborn; Endless Column?

14 Suetonius; Giorgio Vasari; Samuel Johnson?

15 Claudette Colbert; Vivien Leigh; Elizabeth Taylor; Amanda Barrie?

Cracked the Cadbury clue? Photograph: Alamy

Answers

1 Mozart’s Requiem.

2 Harlem Renaissance.

3 House sparrow.

4 Two penny blue (1840).

5 Alaska.

6 Golem (in legend).

7 Kabuki.

8 Strychnine.

9 Affiliations of US presidents (other than Democrat or Republican).

10 42: number of laws; answer in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; starred in The Kumars at No 42; lead singer of Level 42.

11 Chagos Islands (British Indian Ocean Territory).

12 Sponsors of Coronation Street.

13 Sculptures by Constantin Brâncuși.

14 Wrote Lives of the…: Caesars; Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects; Poets.

15 Played Cleopatra in films.