Questions 1 Who was Lord Alvanley’s fat friend? 2 In bony fish, what is the organ of buoyancy control? 3 What reached 29mph in the Rainhill Trials? 4 Where is the Skeleton Coast? 5 What dish was co-devised in 1953 by Constance Spry? 6 Who were the first non-Latin football team to win the European Cup? 7 Which jazz musician claimed to come from Saturn? 8 What is the world’s oldest writing system? What links: 9 Edward Woodward; Denzel Washington; Queen Latifah? 10 King of Spain; Figthing Irish; Platinum Jubbly? 11 Breslau; Danzig; Stettin; Königsberg; Memel? 12 In the Loge; The Tea; The Child’s Bath; Little Girl in a Blue Armchair? 13 Little; great white; cattle? 14 Clippy; Duke; Snoo; Tux; Wumpus? 15 Oliver Cromwell; Leo Amery; David Davis? Answers 1 Prince Regent (according to Beau Brummell’s insult). 2 Swim bladder (air/gas bladder). 3 Stephenson’s Rocket. 4 Atlantic coast of Namibia and Angola. 5 Coronation chicken. 6 Celtic FC (1967). 7 Sun Ra. 8 Cuneiform. 9 Played the Equalizer on film and TV. 10 Misspelt merchandise: Ashley Giles mug; Notre Dame stadium cup; Platinum Jubilee plate. 11 Former German cities: Wrocław, Gdańsk and Szczecin, Poland; Kaliningrad, Russia; Klaipėda, Lithuania. 12 Paintings by Mary Cassatt. 13 Egrets in Britain. 14 Technology mascots: Microsoft; Java; Reddit; Linux; Discord. 15 All said “In the name of God, go” in the Commons: to Rump parliament; to Neville Chamberlain; to Boris Johnson.