The questions



1 Max Brod ignored whose requests to burn his manuscripts?

2 Which musical is set in the condemned Weismann theatre?

3 What court is divided into a centre third and two goal thirds?

4 What Italian dairy company was Europe’s largest bankruptcy?

5 Who opened the British hotel near Balaclava in 1855?

6 Surus was said to be whose last elephant?

7 Which lumps at the back of the nose usually disappear by adulthood?

8 Who might speak Shelta?

What links:

9 Duke of Rothesay; Earl of Inverness; Earl of Forfar?

10 Willem Dafoe; Tony Curran; Tim Roth; Kirk Douglas?

11 Great; From The New World; Choral?

12 PIN number; PAC code; ISBN number; ATM machine; LCD display?

13 Australian Mist; Turkish Van; Norwegian Forest; Devon Rex?

14 Sophie Germain; Sarah Bernhardt; Isadora Duncan; Colette; Édith Piaf; Gertrude Stein?

15 Volga, Mississippi (1); Euphrates (3); Mekong, Rhine (6); Danube (10)?

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Edith Piaf performing in Paris in 1961. Photograph: Getty Images

The answers



1 Franz Kafka.

2 Sondheim’s Follies.

3 Netball.

4 Parmalat.

5 Mary Seacole (and Thomas Day).

6 Hannibal.

7 Adenoids.

8 Irish Travellers.

9 Scottish titles of Princes Charles, Andrew and Edward.

10 Played Van Gogh on film or TV.

11 Ninth symphonies: Schubert; Dvorak; Beethoven.

12 Tautologous abbreviations.

13 Cat breeds.

14 Buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris.

15 Rivers (and how many countries they flow through).