The questions
1 Which stereotypical accent is based on a Robert Newton film role?
2 Which structure used to supply Nîmes with water?
3 Baker Thomas Dagger is said to have raised the alarm about what?
4 Who studied chimpanzees in Gombe?
5 Which Gulf sport uses robot jockeys?
6 The European “snake in the tunnel” was an agreement on what?
7 Severn is the largest class of boat in whose fleet?
8 Which fast food chain began life as Pete’s Super Submarines?
What links:
9 St Martin’s, Canterbury; Bevis Marks, Aldgate; Shah Jahan, Woking?
10 Alcuin; Guy Fawkes; WH Auden; Judi Dench; Kate Atkinson?
11 Bletchley Park; Malcolm Little; Michael de Freitas; Twitter?
12 Kefir; kombucha; kvass; kumis; root beer; tepache?
13 Guy Mollet; Anthony Eden; David Ben-Gurion; Gamal Abdel Nasser?
14 Scout; masonic; dead fish; Paul Hollywood?
15 Congo (2018); Equatorial Guinea (2017); Angola (2007); Gabon (1975); Ecuador (1973)?
The answers
1 Pirate (Long John Silver in Treasure Island).
2 Pont du Gard aqueduct.
3 Great Fire of London.
4 Jane Goodall.
5 Camel racing.
6 Currency exchange rates.
7 RNLI.
8 Subway.
9 Britain’s oldest working religious buildings: church; synagogue; mosque.
10 People from York.
11 Renamed as X: Station X wartime codename; Malcolm X; radical Michael X; in 2023.
12 Fermented non (or very low) alcoholic drinks.
13 Leaders in the Suez Crisis: France; UK; Israel; Egypt.
14 Types of handshake.
15 Most recent countries to join Opec.
