1 Where does the Pont Saint-Bénézet fail to span the Rhône?
2 Denis Thatcher was the last commoner to get what?
3 Smokey Bear is the mascot of which agency?
4 Which female philosopher was killed by a Christian mob in 415 AD?
5 Where do pie-eaters come from?
6 In 1990, Simon & Schuster refused to publish which novel?
7 Domestiques are the unsung toilers of which sport?
8 Trump Heights is in what disputed territory?
What links:
9 Brigantes; Cantiaci; Belgae; Iceni; Silures?
10 Frilled & cow; bramble; saw; angel; bullhead; carpet; mackerel?
11 Beluga; Mriya; Dreamlifter; Hercules?
12 Fever; sausage; quiver; baobab?
13 Star Trek cannon fodder and volunteers in the Risorgimento?
14 Diamonds; Silver Ferns; The Roses; Sunshine Girls?
15 Arsenal; ghetto; regatta; lido; lagoon?
The answers
1 Avignon.
2 Hereditary title (baronetcy).
3 US Forest Service (fire prevention campaign).
4 Hypatia of Alexandria.
5 Wigan (nickname).
6 American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis.
7 Cycling (road racing).
8 Golan Heights (named in 2019).
9 Ancient British tribes.
10 Orders of shark.
11 Large cargo planes: Airbus; Antonov; Boeing; Lockheed.
12 African trees.
13 Red shirts: name given to expendable characters and Giuseppe Garibaldi’s forces.
14 Netball team nicknames: Australia; New Zealand; England; Jamaica.
15 Words with Venetian etymology.
