The questions
1 Who overcame the Curse of the Billy Goat?
2 Which place name is on the Royal Marines’ cap badge?
3 Where did Aunt Ada Doom get a nasty shock?
4 Who married on 29 April 1945 and died the next day?
5 What type of cell can be embryonic or adult, from bone marrow?
6 Which currency was proposed in 2008 by Satoshi Nakamoto?
7 What was proved by discoveries at L’Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland?
8 Alan Steadman from Dundee is the new voice of what?
What links:
9 York and Selby; Lewes and Newhaven; King’s Lynn?
10 Bomba; bamboo; Camargue red; japonica; carnaroli; vialone?
11 Spring and Autumn; Warring States; Three Kingdoms?
12 Isaiah Berlin; Vladimir Nabokov; Joseph Brodsky; Ayn Rand?
13 Uptown Funk; Help; Instant Karma; Word Up; Sandinista?
14 Beggars Of Life; Pandora’s Box; Diary Of A Lost Girl; Miss Europe?
15 Hedgehogs; dormice; bats?
The answers
1 Chicago Cubs baseball team.
2 Gibraltar.
3 Woodshed (Cold Comfort Farm).
4 Hitler and Eva Braun.
5 Stem cell.
6 Bitcoin.
7 Norse/Viking presence in North America.
8 BT Speaking Clock.
9 Stand on different Ouse rivers: Yorkshire; Sussex; Norfolk (Great Ouse).
10 Varieties of rice.
11 Periods of Chinese history.
12 Writers born in St Petersburg/Leningrad.
13 Songs/albums with exclamation mark: Mark Ronson; Beatles; John Lennon; Cameo; the Clash.
14 Films starring Louise Brooks.
15 British mammals that hibernate.
