The questions
1 What did DB Cooper do in 1971, the only such unsolved crime in the US?
2 Which horror stories were first told at the Villa Diodati?
3 What is London’s biggest brick building?
4 Which arcade game features a tilt warning?
5 Quanah Parker led which people in war and peace?
6 Which Darwinian phrase was actually coined by Herbert Spencer?
7 “I pressed the fire control …” is written on which artwork?
8 Which former Play School presenter sits in the House of Lords?
What links:
9 John Luther; Scottish cyclist; moneysaver; designer Zandra; boxer Félix?
10 Liberty; Lioness; Mildmay; Suffragette; Weaver; Windrush?
11 Spinner; Allotter; Inflexible?
12 Huronian; Cryogenian; Andean-Saharan; Karoo; Quaternary (ongoing)?
13 Astro; Marmaduke; Hamlet; Scooby-Doo?
14 Carlos, Prince of Asturias; Joan of Arc; Mary, Queen of Scots; William Tell?
15 Coffee plant; Dead Sea scrolls; Herrerasaurus dinosaur?
The answers
1 Hijack a commercial airliner.
2 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and The Vampyre by John Polidori.
3 Battersea power station.
4 Pinball.
5 Comanche.
6 Survival of the fittest.
7 Whaam! by Roy Lichtenstein.
8 Floella Benjamin.
9 Island surnames: (Idris) Elba; (Chris) Hoy; (Martin) Lewis; Rhodes; Trinidad.
10 New names for London Overground lines.
11 Moirai (Fates) in Greek myth: Clotho; Lachesis; Atropos.
12 Five major ice ages.
13 Fictional Great Danes.
14 Subjects of plays by Schiller.
15 Discovered by goatherds: in Ethiopia, according to legend; Qumran, 1947; Argentina, 1959.
