The questions 1 What was stolen from China by botanist Robert Fortune? 2 Which palace is known as the Viennese Versailles? 3 Carolyn Shoemaker found 32 examples of what? 4 Who were Spengler, Venkman and Stantz in a 1980s film? 5 Reintroduced to the UK, what is the heaviest flying bird? 6 Who changed his middle name from Winston to Ono? 7 The Kalevala is the national epic of which country? 8 The torch relay was devised for which Olympic games? What links: 9 Dijon department; rode through Coventry; Spartan king; mother of God? 10 Motion; planetary motion; thermodynamics; robotics? 11 Darién Gap; Bering Strait; Bosphorus; Suez Canal? 12 Gillian Lynne; Harold Pinter; John Gielgud; Noël Coward? 13 Marbles; tug of war; honeycomb; green light, red light? 14 Where the Light Enters; Becoming; Spoken from the Heart? 15 Artist Lubaina Himid; singer Freddie Mercury; novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah? The answers 1 Tea plants and seeds. 2 Schönbrunn. 3 Comets. 4 Ghostbusters. 5 Great bustard. 6 John Lennon. 7 Finland. 8 Berlin, 1936. 9 Belgian chocolate brands: Côte d’Or; Godiva; Leonidas; Mary. 10 Things with (so-called) three laws. 11 Areas or waterways separating continents: South and North America; North America and Asia; Asia and Europe; Africa and Asia. 12 Gave names to West End theatres. 13 Games played in Netflix’s Squid Game. 14 Books by US first ladies: Jill Biden; Michelle Obama; Laura Bush. 15 Born in Zanzibar.