1 What line ceased to exist by 1890, according to the US Census Bureau?
2 Which Grand National is run at Sittingbourne?
3 Who went on strike in Iceland on 24 October 1975?
4 Which anatomist invented the plastination technique?
5 Ajman is the smallest member of which confederation?
6 Who was Mighty Joe Young in a 1940s film?
7 What board game was the first to have a computer world champion?
8 “A happy face, a thumping bass, for a loving race” was whose motto?
What links:
9 Sencha; matcha; gyokuro; bancha; kabusecha?
10 Gloucestershire; Somerset; Northamptonshire (in cricket)?
11 Salyut; Skylab; Mir; ISS; Tiangong?
12 Arachne; Penelope; Lady of Shalott; Silas Marner; Nick Bottom?
13 Guarani; Quechua; Aymara; Wayuu?
14 Twite; siskin; serin; crossbill; brambling; linnet?
15 Erik Axel Karlfeldt (literature, 1931); Dag Hammarskjöld (peace, 1961); Ralph Steinman (medicine, 2011)?
The answers
1 American frontier.
2 Greyhound.
3 Women.
4 Gunther von Hagens.
5 UAE.
6 Giant gorilla.
7 Draughts/checkers (Chinook program).
8 Soul II Soul.
9 Types of Japanese green tea.
10 Never won official County Championship.
11 Space stations.
12 Weavers: Greek myth; The Odyssey; Tennyson poem; Eliot novel; A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
13 Indigenous peoples/languages of South America.
14 Finches.
15 Posthumous Nobel prize winners
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