1 The Trans-Siberian Highway spans the width of which country?
2 Walter Koenig and Anton Yelchin played Pavel Chekov in which sci-fi franchise?
3 The eustachian tube connects the nasopharynx with the middle what?
4 Which coin, worth one quarter of a penny, ceased to be legal tender on January 1, 1961?
5 Herdwick sheep are found almost exclusively in which national park in northwest England?
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6 Which American electric vehicle company launched its first SUV, the Model X, in 2015?
7 Which Liverpool band had 1980s hits with The Back of Love, The Cutter and Bring on the Dancing Horses?
8 In which Chris Morris film does Waj (Kayvan Novak) say the line: “Rubber dinghy rapids bro”?
9 In a Hegelian observation about wisdom, the owl of which Roman goddess “flies only at dusk”?
10 Which 1996 Graham Swift novel features a trip to Margate to scatter the ashes of Jack Dodds in the sea?
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11 Which is the most northerly town on the mainland of Great Britain?
12 Named after a German chemist, which rule estimates whether a planar ring molecule would have aromatic properties?
13 The “Gateway to the Garhwal Himalayas”, which city in Uttarakhand, India, is known as the birthplace of yoga?
14 Which female sprinter was the 1963 BBC Sports Personality of the Year?
15 Which sovereign prince is pictured?
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Answers
1 Russia
2 Star Trek
3 Ear
4 Farthing
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5 Lake District
6 Tesla
7 Echo & the Bunnymen
8 Four Lions
9 Minerva
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10 Last Orders
11 Thurso
12 Hückel’s rule — proposed by Erich Hückel in 1931
13 Rishikesh
14 Dorothy Hyman
15 Albert II, Prince of Monaco