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The questions
1 Who was the only English monarch to marry a Habsburg?
2 What media company paid $10bn in music royalties in 2024?
3 Which east African country is bottom of the world press freedom rankings?
4 What metal melts at -38.8C?
5 Which artist, according to HG Wells, “invented a whole cat world”?
6 What is the tallest fence on the Aintree Grand National course?
7 What was first won by the Crossworders in 2008?
8 Which restaurant dynasty’s surname was a basic sauce?
What links:
9 A Bend in the River; A Brief History of Seven Killings; To Sir, With Love; Wide Sargasso Sea?
10 Billiard; calabash; churchwarden; cutty; vest pocket?
11 Domenico di Bartolo; Duccio; Pietro and Ambrogio Lorenzetti; Simone Martini?
12 Electromagnetism; gravity; strong nuclear; weak nuclear?
13 Arjan Veurink and Anthony Barry?
14 Deer (wild animals); hedgehog (small animals); lion (safari park); elephant (zoo)?
15 I Love Lucy; Taxi; A Fine Romance; Outnumbered?
The answers
1 Mary I (Philip II of Spain).
2 Spotify.
3 Eritrea.
4 Mercury.
5 Louis Wain.
6 The Chair.
7 Only Connect TV quiz.
8 Roux.
9 Novels by Caribbean-born authors: VS Naipaul; Marlon James; ER Braithwaite; Jean Rhys.
10 Shapes of tobacco pipe.
11 Sienese painters of the early Renaissance.
12 Four fundamental forces/interactions of nature.
13 England (women’s and men’s) assistant football managers.
14 Animals on UK road signs.
15 Sitcoms with real life couples: Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz; Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman; Judi Dench and Michael Williams; Claire Skinner and Hugh Dennis.
