The questions
1 Who burned a million pounds on the island of Jura?
2 Which countries signed the Anti-Comintern Pact in 1936?
3 Who “make me sick… make me tired” in a Dorothy Parker poem?
4 What cattle disease was declared eradicated in 2011?
5 Umkhonto we Sizwe was the armed wing of which political party?
6 In what city is the art-lined Vasari Corridor?
7 Who was killed by the blood of the centaur Nessus?
8 Which singer launched the Fenty Beauty brand?
What links:
9 Niobe; Vanadis; Titans; Thor; Tantalus?
10 Split; stag; cat; ring; sissonne; tuck; pike?
11 Gotland; Saaremaa; Oland; Lolland; Hiiumaa?
12 Lady Gaga; Kim Carnes; Madness; Mika; Gorillaz?
13 Hoover; Landon; Willkie; Dewey?
14 Helmsley and Filey, round the North York Moors?
15 Matilda of Flanders; Eleanor of Aquitaine; Henrietta Maria; Anne Hyde; Mary of Teck?
The answers
1 K Foundation (Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty).
2 Germany and Japan.
3 Men.
4 Rinderpest (cattle plague).
5 African National Congress.
6 Florence.
7 Heracles.
8 Rihanna.
9 Mythological figures who gave names to elements: Niobium; Vanadium; Titanium; Thorium; Tantalum.
10 Leaps and jumps in gymnastics.
11 Islands in the Baltic Sea.
12 Actors in titles of songs: John Wayne; Bette Davis Eyes; Michael Caine; Grace Kelly; Clint Eastwood.
13 Defeated by FD Roosevelt in US presidential elections: 1932; 1936; 1940; 1944.
14 Cleveland Way national trail.
15 Mothers of two monarchs: William II and Henry I; Richard I and John; Charles II and James II; Mary II and Anne; Edward VIII and George VI.
