The questions



1 What was photographed, for the first time, in M87?

2 Who “always hated me. For what, I don’t know”?

3 The Sycamore Gap tree stands in a dip in what landmark?

4 Jacline Mouraud is credited as a founder of which French movement?

5 Which entertainer is celebrated by a statue in Timperley?

6 What plateau makes up much of central and southern India?

7 Whose Long Count calendar reached the end of a cycle in 2012?

8 What is the fastest shark?

What links:

9 Louisa Adams and Melania Trump?

10 Andrewsarchus; smilodon; thylacoleo; dire wolf?

11 Adroit and dexterous; gauche and sinister?

12 1904 Darracq; 1963 Volkswagen Beetle; 52 Plymouth Fury?

13 Paul Wallot; Marinus van der Lubbe; Norman Foster?

14 1832; 1867; 1884?

15 Antigonus; 42 children of Bethel; Hugh Glass?

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The answers



1 Black hole.

2 Sheriff John Brown (in Bob Marley And The Wailers’ song I Shot The Sheriff).

3 Hadrian’s Wall.

4 Gilets jaunes (yellow vests).

5 Frank Sidebottom.

6 Deccan.

7 Mayan.

8 Mako (shortfin).

9 Only foreign-born US First Ladies.

10 Prehistoric carnivores.

11 Words derived from right; left.

12 Title cars in film/fiction: Genevieve; Herbie; Christine.

13 German Reichstag: designed; alleged arsonist; designed rebuild.

14 UK parliamentary reform acts.

15 Mauled by bears: The Winter’s Tale; Bible (2 Kings); The Revenant.