Questions
1 Which monarch owned 640 dogs representing 32 breeds?
2 Which clothing brand originated in South Shields Market Square?
3 Buckyballs are a form of what element?
4 What has dominated the RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch over the past 20 years?
5 What food safety measure was developed by microbiologist Alice Evans?
6 Old Faithful, or 11 to 15, is an opening move in which game?
7 Philippe Halsman photographed his subjects doing what?
8 Which country’s flag promises “order and progress”?
What links:
9 Lieutenant Kijé; Comrade Ogilvy; Bunbury; Captain Tuttle; Suzie?
ten Balzac; Paolo Malatesta and Francesca da Rimini; siege of Calais?
11 Ba’ ; Bottle kick; Mark the Hales; Uppies and Downies?
12 Lost in a good book; Havisham; Jack Maggs; Mr Pip?
13 Iphigenia in Greek myth and Isaac in the Bible?
14 The gas giant; Neptunian; super-Earth; earthly?
15 England (1485); France (923); Germany (1298); Scotland (1513)?
![Groyne Lighthouse in South Shields sits at the mouth of the River Tyne](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/6ec78393db3171c2a8604ba07de5852ed6b3d4ea/0_0_4312_2587/master/4312.jpg?width=445&dpr=1&s=none)
The answers
1 Queen Victoria.
2 Barbour.
3 Carbon.
4 (House sparrow.
5 Pasteurization of milk.
6 Drafts (checkers).
7 Jump.
8 Brazil.
9 Characters who do not exist: Russian novel; the novel 1984; The importance of being serious; MASH POTATOES; Seinfeld.
ten Sculptures inspired by Rodin: Monument to Balzac; The kiss; Burghers of Calais.
11 Medieval football matches are still played in the United Kingdom.
12 Novels inspired by Great Expectations: Jasper Fforde; Frame Ronald; Peter Carey; Lloyd Jones.
13 Saved from sacrifice by their fathers (in some versions, Iphigenia did not survive).
14 Categories of exoplanets.
15 Last monarch to die in battle: Richard III at Bosworth; Robert I in Soissons; Adolphe in Göllheim; James IV at Flodden.