The questions
1 In physics, what unsolved problem is abbreviated TOE?
2 Who established her visitor attraction in 1835 at the Baker Street Bazaar?
3 Which Australian marsupial was known as the native cat?
4 Who calls his rambling rhetoric “the weave”?
5 Why might a person weighing 45kg be proverbially feeble?
6 What arcade game is known as “flipper” in French?
7 What was first celebrated in Rome in 1300?
8 Which comic is purportedly edited by Tharg the Mighty?
What links:
9 East; Sunrise; Union; Salute; Peace/World?
10 Olympics 2024; Las Vegas 2011 to 2019; Oscars 1998; Eurovision 1988?
11 Peace (17); Physics (25); Medicine (32); Chemistry (35); Literature (41); Economics (46)?
12 Quire; ream; bundle; bale; pallet?
13 Pope Benedict XVI; William Bligh; CS Lewis; Richard Nixon; Pablo Picasso?
14 Farm building; light brown; small; brief and lengthy hearing organs?
15 Not Like Us; Yeah!; Diamonds; California Love; Blinding Lights?
The answers
1 Theory of everything.
2 Madame Tussaud.
3 Quoll.
4 Donald Trump.
5 Seven-stone weakling.
6 Pinball.
7 Jubilee (Catholic).
8 2000 AD.
9 Translated names of Soviet/Russian space programmes: Vostok; Voskhod; Soyuz; Salyut; Mir.
10 Céline Dion performances.
11 Youngest winners of Nobel prizes: Malala Yousafzai; Lawrence Bragg; Frederick Banting; Frédéric Joliot; Rudyard Kipling; Esther Duflo.
12 Units of paper quantity.
13 Real people played in films by Anthony Hopkins.
14 UK owls: barn; tawny; little; short-eared and long-eared.
15 Performed at last five Super Bowl half-time shows: Kendrick Lamar; Usher; Rihanna; Dr Dre; The Weeknd.
