What links Primal Scream, PH Newby and Malcolm Morley? The Weekend quiz

From Antonia to Vanessa, test your knowledge with the Weekend quiz

1 What resulted from an argument over the fastest game bird in Europe?
2 Ernest Bevin wanted the “bloody Union Jack on top” of what?
3 Charmion was the servant and confidante of which monarch?
4 Which countries are separated by the Yalu river?
5 What venue has 85 acoustic diffusers, known as “mushrooms”?
6 Antonia is the title instrument in what novel?
7 What is the second oldest independent nation in the Americas?
8 What has Tattersalls sold since 1766?
What links:
9 Navona; Campidoglio; di Spagna; del Popolo; St Peter’s?
10 A; dis; il; im; in; ir; non; un?
11 PH Newby, 1969; Malcolm Morley, 1984; Primal Scream, 1992?
12 Oxygen; iodine; gold; europium; uranium?
13 Pac-12; Sun Belt; Big 12; SEC; The American; MW?
14 Beast Mode; RapCaviar; Today’s Top Hits; New Music Friday?
15 Katharine Hepburn; Vanessa Redgrave; Samantha Morton; Saoirse Ronan?

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