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The questions
1 Elizabeth II opened Olympics in London and what other city?
2 Emerald is a variety of which mineral?
3 Where did spend Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore spend an unplanned nine months?
4 Which muse was painted more than 60 times by George Romney?
5 LDL and HDL are the type main types of what bodily substance?
6 Which river’s annual flood came to an end in 1970?
7 Rebecca West’s Black Lamb and Grey Falcon is an epic study of what former country?
8 What does a foley artist provide in film and TV?
What links:
9 Accept; Helloween; Kreator; Rammstein; Scorpions?
10 Links Atlantic and Pacific; mapped Venus; Milky Way satellite galaxies; South American penguin?
11 Hanoi and Haiphong, Vietnam; Shreveport, Louisiana; Winnipeg, Canada?
12 Apodyterium; frigidarium; tepidarium; caldarium?
13 Spencer Compton; Pitt the Younger; Arthur Balfour; Edward Heath?
14 Uruguay (1916); South Korea (1956); Egypt (1957); Soviet Union (1960); US (1991)?
15 Dagwood; fool’s gold; fluffernutter; pilgrim; po’ boy; Reuben?
The answers
1 Montreal (1976).
2 Beryl.
3 International Space Station.
4 Emma Hamilton.
5 Cholesterol.
6 The Nile.
7 Yugoslavia.
8 Sound effects.
9 German heavy metal bands.
10 Named after Ferdinand Magellan: Magellan Strait; Magellan probe; Large and Small Magellanic Clouds; Magellanic penguin.
11 Stand on (different) Red rivers.
12 Parts of an ancient Roman baths.
13 Prime ministers who never married.
14 Inaugural winners of continental (men’s) football tournaments: Copa América; Asian Cup; Africa Cup of Nations; European Championships; Concacaf Gold Cup.
15 Types of American sandwich.
