The questions
1 75% of what bird’s global population hatches at Lake Natron, Tanzania?
2 Who made the 1947 “tryst with destiny” speech?
3 Which ex-head of ICI became a TV personality?
4 “Aelfred mec heht gewyrcan” is inscribed on what?
5 Which element is named after a European river?
6 Who has won the Fifa Women’s World Cup three times?
7 How did Harry Colcord cross Niagara Falls in 1859?
8 Which novel features a leopard-man and swine-woman?
What links:
9 Joltin’ Joe; Mr October; Sultan of Swat; the Georgia Peach?
10 Vulgate Bible; The Catcher In The Rye; Three Men In A Boat?
11 Italia Conti; Webber Douglas; Rose Bruford; Sylvia Young?
12 Fuji, 1707; Vesuvius, 1944; Mauna Loa, 1984; St Helens, 2008?
13 Philippa Gregory; Richard Leakey; Richard Dawkins; Chris Froome?
14 Capcom; Rockstar; Eidos; Konami; Ubisoft?
15 Elia Kazan; Nicholas Ray; George Stevens?
The answers
1 (Lesser) flamingo.
2 Jawaharlal Nehru.
3 John Harvey-Jones.
4 The Alfred Jewel.
5 Rhenium (Rhine).
6 USA.
7 On the back of tightrope walker Charles Blondin.
8 HG Wells’s Island of Dr Moreau.
9 Baseball nicknames: Joe DiMaggio; Reggie Jackson; Babe Ruth; Ty Cobb.
10 Jeromes: St Jerome; Jerome D Salinger; Jerome K Jerome.
11 Drama schools.
12 Last eruption of volcanoes.
13 Born in Nairobi.
14 Video game companies.
15 Directed James Dean films: East of Eden; Rebel Without a Cause; Giant.
