The questions
1 Which vessel has its forward guns trained on London Gateway services?
2 What household utility is tested for packet loss, latency and jitter?
3 Who was the first English monarch to be excommunicated?
4 Where was “Robocop” elected mayor in 2002?
5 The blue-ringed are highly venomous species of which marine creature?
6 What extreme sport was popularised by New Zealander AJ Hackett?
7 Who edited Blue Peter for 26 years?
8 Which board game’s world champion appropriately wins $20,580?
What links:
9 All in the Family; Welcome to Flatch; Sanford and Son; Us & Them?
10 Lady day; midsummer’s day; Michaelmas; Christmas?
11 Fate; Strange; Doom; Manhattan?
12 Turkana; Nyasa; Tanganyika; Victoria?
13 Makes honey; eg Baltic; colourful crow; wait in line; eg oolong?
14 Chip; fish; pastry; pickle; salad; toasting?
15 My Early Life; Emma; The Fighting Temeraire; Computing Machinery and Intelligence?
The answers
1 HMS Belfast.
2 Broadband.
3 King John (1209).
4 Middlesbrough (Ray Mallon).
5 Octopus.
6 Bungy jumping.
7 Biddy Baxter.
8 Monopoly (the amount of the money in the game).
9 US versions of UK sitcoms: Till Death Us Do Part; This Country; Steptoe and Son; Gavin & Stacey.
10 Quarter days in England.
11 Marvel/DC comics doctors.
12 Largest lakes in Africa, by area.
13 Single letter homonyms: bee; sea; jay; queue; tea.
14 Types of fork.
15 Works by people on Bank of England banknotes: Churchill; Austen; Turner; Turing.
