The questions 1 Whose autobiography is the fastest-selling non-fiction book ever? 2 India’s Gir Forest is home to Asia’s last population of which cats? 3 Who referred to herself as Jehanne la pucelle? 4 What peaked in Britain in 1913 at 292m tonnes? 5 The Höfner 500/1 Violin Bass was whose trademark instrument? 6 What fashion retailer is Lithuania’s first tech “unicorn” company? 7 Kakheti and Kartli are wine regions in which country? 8 Richard Nixon was obsessed with which 1970 war film? What links: 9 Marketa Vondrousova; Goran Ivanisevic; Boris Becker? 10 Cornwall; Japan; Venice; Tower of London; Portsmouth? 11 Hephaestus; Tubal-cain; Vulcan; Wayland? 12 Acadia; Grand Teton; Joshua Tree; Olympic; Zion? 13 Complacency; debauchery; earthshaking; enjoyable; pandemonium; terrific? 14 Cardross, 1329; Spain (postmortem); Melrose Abbey (currently)? 15 Triad; Jura mountains; chalk? The answers 1 Prince Harry (Spare). 2 Lions. 3 Joan of Arc. 4 Coal production. 5 Paul McCartney. 6 Vinted. 7 Georgia. 8 Patton. 9 Unseeded open-era Wimbledon singles champions. 10 Settings of Gilbert and Sullivan operas: Pirates of Penzance; Mikado; Gondoliers; Yeomen of the Guard; HMS Pinafore. 11 Blacksmiths: Greek god; Book of Genesis; Roman god; Germanic myth. 12 US national parks. 13 Words coined (or use first recorded) by John Milton. 14 Robert the Bruce’s heart: stopped beating; taken on crusade; finally buried. 15 Name origins of the periods of the Mesozoic era: Triassic; Jurassic; Cretaceous.
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