Which Gascon brandy is France’s oldest? The Saturday quiz

The questions

1 Which US president vomited on the Japanese prime minister?
2 Which literary character was the “modern Prometheus”?
3 What global event began in 2004 as the Bushy Park time trial?
4 Which consecutive digits made up this year’s most perplexing meme?
5 Which medieval coin was worth four pence?
6 What Gascon brandy is France’s oldest?
7 Which wild west gunfighter was a dentist?
8 Which element was used in rat poison and pre-X-ray “meals”?
What links:
9 Appia; Aurelia; Cassia; Flaminia; Salaria; Tiburtina?
10 Jerry and Mike; Carole and Gerry; Burt and Hal; Brian, Lamont and Eddie?
11 Of a large city (magenta); 1977 (grey); 1819-1901 (light blue); 360 degrees (yellow)?
12 Balearic; Cory’s; great; Manx; sooty?
13 Rania; Noor (Lisa); Muna (Toni); Dina; Zein?
14 Yerevan; Minsk; Beijing; Copenhagen; Cairo; Paris; Berlin?
15 Totem and Taboo; War and Children; Benefits Supervisor Sleeping; Hideous Kinky; 1970 jumper?

In a muddle over the Minsk clue? Photograph: karp5/Getty Images/iStockphoto

The answers

1 George HW Bush (1992).
2 Victor Frankenstein (subtitle of Mary Shelley novel).
3 Parkrun.
4 6-7.
5 Groat.
6 Armagnac.
7 Doc Holliday.
8 Barium.
9 Ancient roads that led to Rome.
10 Songwriting partnerships: Leiber and Stoller; King and Goffin; Bacharach and David; Holland-Dozier-Holland.
11 Tube lines: Metropolitan; Jubilee; Victoria; Circle.
12 Shearwater birds.
13 Queens/princess of Jordan.
14 Capitals of countries A to G: Armenia; Belarus; China; Denmark; Egypt; France; Germany.
15 Works by Freuds: Sigmund; Anna; Lucian; Esther; Bella.