The questions
1 Disbanded in 1975, what was the ARVN?
2 What was originally the boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania?
3 Which film starts with a disclaimer about the name Zorin?
4 Which method of dismissal in cricket became obsolete in 2017?
5 Which European country went 589 days without an elected government?
6 What distinguishes Point Nemo, at 48°52.6’S 123°23.6’W?
7 What began life as Rowntree’s Chocolate Crisp?
8 Fire temples are places of worship in which religion?
What links:
9 Emma Stone; Steve Carell; Shia LaBeouf; Sverrir Gudnason?
10 Creeping red fescue; common bent; rye; smooth-stalked meadow?
11 Panama and Iceland, next June?
12 Lord Grey, Newcastle; Wellington, Liverpool; Nelson and Duke of York, London?
13 Burmese; Indian; African rock; reticulated; ball?
14 ICAN; OPCW; EU; IPCC; IAEA; UN; ICBL?
15 Frances Trollope; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Muriel Spark; Magdalen Nabb?
The answers
1 South Vietnamese army.
2 Mason-Dixon Line.
3 A View To A Kill.
4 Handled the ball (now covered by obstructing the field).
5 Belgium, 2010-11.
6 Farthest point from land (oceanic pole of inaccessibility).
7 KitKat.
8 Zoroastrianism.
9 Played tennis players in 2017 films: Billie Jean King; Bobby Riggs; McEnroe; Borg.
10 Types of grass.
11 Making World Cup debuts.
12 Statues topping columns.
13 Pythons.
14 Nobel Peace prize-winning organisations.
15 British women writers who died in Florence.
