The questions
1 Who requested in his will that an art gallery be established in Linz?
2 Which mustelid was named “most fearless animal” by Guinness World Records?
3 What was the first concert tour to gross $2bn in ticket sales?
4 The Kirkwood gaps are regions within what?
5 The Ishihara test is used to diagnose which condition?
6 Which element is named from the Greek for lead?
7 Helvetia appears on which country’s stamps?
8 Which sports teams were rebranded from “minor” to “national” in 2020?
What links:
9 Agatha Christie; Sophia Engastromenou; Earl Spencer?
10 The Red Detachment of Women; The White-Haired Girl; Ode to the Yimeng Mountains?
11 Cosmati Pavement; Henry VII Chapel; Pyx Chamber; Shrine of Edward the Confessor?
12 Alexandria and Avignon; Balkans and Levant; Cairo; New York?
13 Lost (Confederate myth); Good Old (English republicanism); Great (13th-century Scottish succession)?
14 Coldplay; Devo; James; Talking Heads; U2?
15 Alces alces, Canada; Haliaeetus leucocephalus, US; Panthera onca, Mexico?
The answers
1 Adolf Hitler.
2 Honey badger (ratel).
3 Taylor Swift’s Eras.
4 Main-belt asteroids.
5 (Red/green) colour vision deficiencies.
6 Molybdenum.
7 Switzerland.
8 Cricket’s minor counties.
9 Married to archaeologists: Max Mallowan; Heinrich Schliemann; Cat Jarman.
10 Chinese revolutionary ballets.
11 Parts of Westminster Abbey.
12 Novel sequences named after places: Lawrence Durrell; Olivia Manning; Naguib Mahfouz; Paul Auster.
13 Historical “Causes”.
14 Bands who worked with producer Brian Eno.
15 Scientific names of 2026 World Cup mascots: moose; bald eagle; jaguar.
