The Weekend quiz

Questions

1 The army surgeon William Brydon is the subject of which painting?
2 Whose squint would be emphasised by an ingenue role?
3 What was a donkey stone used for?
4 Who did Virginia Woolf call “the mother of English fiction”?
5 What is Nasa’s JPL?
6 What did John Isner and Nicolas Mahut do together over 11 hours and five minutes?
7 Where are kelpies supposed to live?
8 The Austrian School was a school of what?
What links:
9 Cotswold; Longsword; North West; Border; Molly; Rapper Sword?
10 Lions; Tigers; Bears; Bulldogs; Quakers; Big Red; Big Green; Crimson?
11 Liverpool Cathedral; Waterloo Bridge; Battersea Power Station; telephone box?
12 Sarah Osborne, Sarah Good and Tituba (in 1692)?
13 Key Largo; To Have And Have Not; The Big Sleep; Dark Passage?
14 Appendix; coccyx; Plica semilunaris; wisdom teeth?
15 Tony Visconti; Nile Rodgers; Ken Scott; Brian Eno; Mike Vernon?

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Answers

1 Elizabeth Butler’s Remnants Of An Army.
2 Mrs Worthington’s daughter (in the Noël Coward song).
3 To clean stone steps.
4 Fanny Burney.
5 Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
6 They played the longest match in tennis history (Wimbledon, 2010).
7 Bodies of water (in Scottish myth).
8 Economic thought.
9 Styles of Morris and other traditional dancing.
10 Ivy League sports nicknames.
11 Designed by Giles Gilbert Scott.
12 First people accused in Salem witch case.
13 Bogart/Bacall films.
14 Vestigial features of the human body.
15 Producers who worked with David Bowie.