The questions1 What is the only Asian country wholly in the southern hemisphere?2 Which cross-Channel service ended in 2000 after 32 years?3 What 1957 novel was typed on a 37-metre-long scroll?4 Which two sportswear giants are based in the Bavarian town of Herzogenaurach?5 Which singer and activist was nicknamed Mama Africa?6 Pfas are popularly known as what by environmentalists?7 A pair of Aris Isotoner Lights gloves played a central role in what event?8 About which operation did Churchill say “wars are not won by evacuations”?What links:
9 Jonathan and Oscar Cainer; Debbie Frank; Sally Kirkman; Shelley von Strunckel?10 Cricket clothing; Lucas and Polanski; Delta music; NZ rugby?11 Syra (I); Philometor Soteira (II and III); Tryphaena (V); Thea Philopator (VII)?12 Regnum defende and semper occultus?13 Black Dyke; Brighouse and Rastrick; Cory; Grimethorpe Colliery?14 Benjamin Franklin; Michelle Kwan; Clare Boothe Luce; Shirley Temple?15 Arabic (Roman); Dutch (Calicut); Portuguese (Peru); French and Turkish (Indian)?Sitting pretty with the Shirley Temple clue? Photograph: Bettmann/Bettmann ArchiveThe answers1 Timor-Leste (formerly East Timor).2 Hovercraft.3 On the Road by Jack Kerouac.4 Adidas and Puma.5 Miriam Makeba.6 Forever chemicals (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances).7 Trial of OJ Simpson.8 Operation Dynamo (Dunkirk evacuation).9 Astrologers in the media.10 Colours: whites; Greens; blues; (All) Blacks.11 Bynames of Egyptian Cleopatra queens.12 Mottoes of MI5 and MI6.13 Celebrated brass bands.14 US ambassadors who were famous in other fields: founding father and polymath; figure skater; writer; film star.15 Etymologies in various languages of the word for the turkey.
