The questions

1 What did a former yacht showroom on Whitworth Street in Manchester become?

2 Who “foresees his death” in a poem by Yeats?

3 Which radio quiz turns 70 this year?

4 What is the only fan-owned major league sports team in the US?

5 Which invasive plant has the botanical name Fallopia japonica?

6 Which orchestra’s home is the Musikverein?

7 What anti-hunting group was founded in 1924?

8 Which Trieste suburb gives its name to a sparkling wine?

What links:

9 Clifton; Vilani; Kovalev; Skorjanec; Cacace?

10 Bamboo; sportive; hairy-eared dwarf; ring-tailed; mouse; woolly?

11 Mario Puzo; Joseph Conrad; SE Hinton; Bram Stoker?

12 Kalends; Nones; Ides?

13 Barnard; Bryn Mawr; Mount Holyoke; Smith; Wellesley?

14 Charcoal; Chicago; Geneva; Sand; Skia; Textile?

15 Portugal; South Korea; Ghana; Egypt; Peru?





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The answers

1 Hacienda club.

2 An Irish Airman.

3 Round Britain Quiz.

4 Green Bay Packers.

5 Japanese knotweed.

6 Vienna Philharmonic.

7 League Against Cruel Sports.

8 Prosecco.

9 Last five professional Strictly winners.

10 Types of lemur.

11 Francis Ford Coppola film adaptations: The Godfather; Apocalypse Now; The Outsiders and Rumble Fish; Dracula.

12 Reference days of the Roman month.

13 US “Seven Sisters” colleges that remain women-only.

14 Apple trademarked fonts.

15 Home countries of recent UN secretary generals.