The questions
1 Which South American was the world’s first female president?
2 What was the destination of the First Fleet?
3 Who lived at 308 Negra Arroyo Lane, Albuquerque?
4 Which epic poem is based on the Battle of Roncevaux?
5 What animal is a sarcastic fringehead?
6 What German car was last made in Mexico in 2019?
7 Pollex is the medical name for what part of the body?
8 Thomas Neuwirth won Eurovision under what stage persona?
What links:
9 Norwich; Newlyn; St Ives; Camden Town; Bloomsbury?
10 Platypus and four species of echidna?
11 Renren; QQ; Sina Weibo; WeChat?
12 Sydenstricker; Stearns; Staples; Surajprasad?
13 Colonel Ninotchka; Mt Fiji; Zelda the Brain; Matilda the Hun?
14 Harmost; satrap; voivode; bey; subahdar?
15 Ridley Scott; James Cameron; David Fincher; Jean-Pierre Jeunet?
The answers
1 Isabel Perón (1974).
2 Botany Bay (first penal colony in Australia).
3 White family in Breaking Bad.
4 The Song of Roland.
5 Fish.
6 VW Beetle.
7 Thumb.
8 Conchita Wurst.
9 Schools/groups of artists.
10 Monotremes (egg-laying mammals).
11 Chinese social media sites.
12 Writers’ initial S: Pearl S Buck; TS Eliot; CS Lewis; VS Naipaul.
13 Wrestlers from the 1980s Glow circuit.
14 Governors (historical terms): Sparta; Persian empire; E Europe; Ottoman empire; Mughal empire.
15 Directed films in the Alien series: Alien; Aliens; Alien 3; Alien: Resurrection.
