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 8.5 is Christine Watkins (eaten by the shark in Chapter One of Peter Benchley's Jaws near Old Mill Road)

Struggling with the last five

6.1 might be about the Argentinian Rugby team, but Buenos Aires really doesn't fit with the "Ben" theme
6.3 doesn't seem to refer to a person ("what" rather than "who"), but I have no clue
8.5 must refer to some literary work, but I cannot find it
15.3 seems to be literary, nautical, and has a Bristol connection, so is probably from a nautical novel
16.2 seems remarkably vague, but the theme seems to be exiled/deposed/moved rulers

Any ideas?


SECTION 10
1 A twisted cue and elliptical balls (The Mikado)
2 Count Greffi (Hemingway - A Farewell To Arms)
3 Three Cushion Billiards (The Hustler)
4 Skule (Sule) Skerry (John Buchan - The Runagates Club)
5 Her arm was sore (Antony and Cleopatra, Act 2, Scene 5)
6 Ray Reardon
7 Datchet Inn (Jerome K Jerome - Three Men In A Boat)
8 Mary Queen of Scots
9 The Tip of His Nose (Lewis Carroll - The Hunting of the Snark)
10 Little brown billiard balls (A B Peterson - Old Man Platypus)
SECTION 11
1 Sandhurst
2 Stonyhurst College - Quant Je Puis
3 Chislehurst
4 Penshurst
5 Tilehurst
6 HMP Parkhurst
7 Bathurst, New Brunswick
8 Staplehurst (Charles Dickens)
9 Crowhurst, Surrey
10 Lyndhurst, New Forest
SECTION 12
1 Nico Landenis
2 Jamie Oliver (who was not naked)?
3 Le Gavroche (The Urchin - opened by the Roux Brothers)
4 Robert Carrier (opened first restaurant in Islington)
5 Gordon Ramsay
6 Mr Paddock (John Buchan, The Thirty Nine Steps)
7 Mrs Hudson
8 Mr Jeremy Fisher (Beatrix Potter)
9 Marie-Antoine Carême
10 Gary Rhodes
SECTION 13 - SUFFOLK
1 Pin Mill (Arthur Ransome - We Didn't Mean To Go to Sea0
2 Woodbridge (last tide mill)
3 The Plough Inn, Blundeston (referring to Barkis in David Copperfield)
4 Flatford Mill
5 Framlingham College pupils were evacuated to Repton
6 Ipswich (Charles Dickens - The Pickwick Papers)
7 Walberswick
8 Stowmarket 1871
9 Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh
10 Southwold
SECTION 14 - The Epistles
1 Romans
2 Galatians
3 I Corinthians
4 2 John
5 Hebrews
6 2 Timothy
7 Philippians
8 Titus
9 Jude
10 Ephesians
SECTION 15
1 Bristol Temple Church
2 Clifton Suspension Bridge
3 Clifton College (T.E. Brown)
4 S.S. Great Britain
5 St Mary Redcliffe
6 Bristol Cathedral
7 The Old Anchor Inn (R L Stevenson - Treasure Island)
8 John Betjeman
9 Arnolfini centre for contemporary arts
10 The Bush

SECTION 16
1 Ras Tafari Makonnen, Haile Selassie I
2 Queen Victoria (calling herself Countess of Balmoral)
3 Napoleon III (although this seems to be the second question about this)
4 Emperor Puyi (the Last Emperor)
5 Tsar Peter the Great
6 Pharaoh Ramses II
7 Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna
8 Shah Reza Pahlavi of Iran
9 Empress Elisabeth of Austria
10 Bahadur Shah Zafar
SECTION 17
1 Elizabeth of Rhuddlan (d. 1316)
2 Queen Elizabeth II
3 Mary I and Elizabeth I
4 Elizabeth Stuart daughter of Charles I died on 8th September 1650, but was aged 15 and unmarried so not strictly an "ancestor"
5 Elizabeth Stuart, Electress of the Palatinate
6 Elizabeth de Burgh, wife of Robert I
7 Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom, daughter of George III died in January 1840 four weeks before the marriage of Queen Victoria
8 Princess Elizabeth of Clarence
9 Elizabeth of York, mother of Henry VIII
10 Elizabeth Woodville (poem by Robert Southey)
SECTION 18
1 Hurricane Ian killed 23 people in Charlotte NC
2 Svante Pääbo won Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Sequenced Neanderthal genome
3 Dick Francis (jockey who rode Devon Loch)
4 Canada and Denmark – Hans Island
5 Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
6 The barquentine Endurance (sank 1915, rediscovered in March)
7 Elizabeth the Great (Frederick the Great)
8. The Oscars (Will Smith took offence at comment about his wife)
9 Jonny Bairstow slipped and injured his leg
10 Rudi Koertzen, cricket umpire noted for the time it took to dismiss batsmen, died in a car crash

Erato: Sorry - Shah Reza Pahlavi was deleted by accident and is obviously correct

Some answers to get us going...

SECTION 1
1 Charles Atlas
2 Sistine Chapel. (Pope Benedict XV followed by Pius XI)
3 James Joyce – Ulysses (Leopold Bloom)
4 Hampshire were bowled out for 15 (eight ducks, four extras) against Warwickshire. Following on they made 521 and won by 155 runs
5 Mohandas K Gandhi
6 Walter Rathenau (Rathenauplatz Metro Station)
7 Niels Bohr, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1922.  His son Aage Bohr received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1975
8 Erskine Childers (father of E H Childers, President of the Republic of Ireland 1973-74)
9 Sir Henry Wilson
10 SS Egypt collided with the French ship Seine near Finistère, France
SECTION 2 - FRANCE
1 Mâcon (Ian Fleming -Goldfinger)
2 Bayonne (Ernest Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises)
3 Marseilles (Charles Dickens - Little Dorrit)
4 Muzillac (C S Forester - Mr Midshipman Hornblower)
5 Toulon  (Patrick O'Brian - Post Captain)
6 Montastier (R L Stevenson - Travels with a donkey in the Cévennes)
7 Paris - (Georges Simenon - Maigret and the Wine Merchant)
8 Amiens (Abbé Prévost, Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux, et de Manon Lescaut)
9 Orange (Baroness Orczy - Sir Percy Hits Back)
10 Rheims (Richard Harris Barham, The Jackdaw of Rheims)
SECTION 3 - JOSEPH CONRAD
1 Heart of Darkness
2 Amy Foster
3 Almayer's Folly
4 The Secret Agent
5 An Outcast of the Islands
6 The Rescue, A Romance of the Shallows
7 The Shadow Line
8 Youth
9 Lord Jim
10The Children of the Sea

SECTION 4 - ELEANORS
1 Elinor Dashwood
2 Eleanor of Castile
3 Leonora (Beethoven - Fidelio)
4 Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden (r. Dec 1718-Feb 1720)
5 Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine (1176)
6 Eleanor of Arborea (Eleonora's falcon)
7 Eleanor Roosevelt
8 Eleanor Savage (F Scott Fitzgerald - This Side of Paradise)
9 Eleanor Rigby
10 Eleanor “Nell” Gwyn
SECTION 5
1 Miss Trunchbull (Roald Dahl - Matilda)
2 Andrew Crocker Harris (Terence Rattigan - The Browning Version)
3 Orbilius ( according to the poet Horace)
4 Mrs Goddard (Jane Austen - Emma)
5 Teddy Lloyd (Muriel Spark - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie)
6 Mr Pugh (Dylan Thomas - Under Milk Wood)
7 Mr Traill - (Hugh Walpole - Mr Perrin and Mr Traill)
8 Sir Hugh Evans - The Merry Wives of Windsor
9 Captain Grimes (Evelyn Waugh - Decline and Fall)
10 Mr Mell (Charles Dickens - David Copperfield)
SECTION 6 - START WITH "BEN"
1
2 Bennett's fracture
3
4 Bencoolen
5 Bensersiel (Erskine Childers - The Riddle of the Sands)
6 Battle of Benfleet (894)
7 Benedicite
8 On a boat from Benbecula  to Skye (1746)
9 HMS Ben-my-Chree ("Woman of My Heart" in Manx), sunk in 1917
10 Benskins
SECTION 7 - CANALS
1 The Inguinal canal
2 The Aire and Calder canals
3 Göta Canal, Sweden
4  Bridgewater Canal crossing the Manchester Ship Canal
5 Grand Union Canal ( L T C Rolt - Narrow Boat)
6 The Willebroek Canal (R L Stevenson  - An Inland Voyage)
7 The Grand Canal Venice (Lord Byron swimming race)
8 Crinan Canal
9 Forth and Clyde/Union canals (Falkirk Wheel)
10 Dortmund-Ems Canal
SECTION 8
1 Sticky Prickly (Rudyard Kipling - Just So Stories)
2 Tom Blower (1947)
3 The Swiss Family Robinson dogs Turk and Juno
4 James Bond (Ian Fleming - Live and Let Die)
5
6 Gertrude Ederle (1926)
7 Grendel (Beowulf)
8 Lynne Cox (Bering Strait 1987)
9 Captain Matthew Webb
10 Lord Byron after swimming the Hellespont
SECTION 9 - TRAITORS
1 Chidiock Tichborne
2 Roger Casement (W B Yeats - The Ghost of Roger Casement)
3 Edward Despard
4 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
5 Gilles van Ledenberg
6 John Amery
7 Augustin Preucil
8 Illiam Dhone, Governor of Isle of Man, executed at Castletown in 1663
9 John Brown
10 Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat "the Fox"