Which trumpeter was the first jazz musician to win a Pulitzer prize? The Saturday quiz

The questions

1 The Aralkum in Central Asia is the world’s latest what?
2 Which insect is regarded as named after the color of one in every of its varieties, the male Brimstone?
3 The place in London is a 3.45 metre nude statue of Napoleon?
4 In accordance with Leviticus, a jubilee marks what number of years?
5 Which trumpeter was the primary jazz musician to win a Pulitzer prize?
6 What was nicknamed “inheritance powder”?
7 Blood Communion is the thirteenth and final guide through which collection?
8 Which architect designed Queen Mary’s Dolls’ Home?
What hyperlinks:
9 Valencia; Zaragoza; Galatasaray; Barcelona; Chelsea?
10 Fredric March; James Mason; Kris Kristofferson; Bradley Cooper?
11 Barbie; bubblegum; coral; sizzling; surprising?
12 France (1582); Britain (1752); Russia (1918); Saudi Arabia (2016)?
13 Nob; Telegraph; Russian; Rincon; Twin Peaks?
14 Abba; Whitney Houston; Tupac; Roy Orbison; Buddy Holly?
15 Golden ratio; pi; e; sq. root of two?

Cracked the Buddy Holly clue? That’ll be the day … Photograph: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Photographs

The solutions

1 Desert (rather than the Aral Sea).
2 Butterfly.
3 Apsley Home (by Antonio Canova).
4 Fifty.
5 Wynton Marsalis.
6 Arsenic.
7 Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles.

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8 Edwin Lutyens.
9 Beat Arsenal in European membership soccer finals.
10 Male leads in A Star Is Born: 1937; 1954; 1976; 2018.
11 Shades of pink.
12 Adoption of Gregorian calendar.
13 Hills in San Francisco.
14 Carried out in digital kind.
15 Irrational numbers.