The questions
1 Whose first screen introduction was to Sylvia Trench?
2 What makes up 0.2% of the mass of our solar system?
3 Which bird has only two toes on each foot?
4 What protest began in 1981 near Newbury?
5 Once used in leather tanning, what was “pure”?
6 Which musician skied for Thailand in the Winter Olympics?
7 What did the Trucial States become in 1971?
8 Whose Veneto villas are a world heritage site?
What links:
9 CA Lejeune; Margaret Hinxman; Pauline Kael; Dilys Powell?
10 Pinyin; romaji; RR; RTGS?
11 Selby; Le Mans; Winchester; Bolingbroke; Monmouth?
12 6, 28, 496, 8128 etc?
13 Ray Mancini; Boris Becker; Fred Couples; Shahid Afridi?
14 Dung; Golden; Lions; Herod’s; Zion; Jaffa; Damascus?
15 Britain and continental Europe (until around 8,500 years ago)?
The answers
1 James Bond (Dr No).
2 Everything that isn’t the Sun.
3 Ostrich.
4 Greenham Common peace camp.
5 Dog excrement.
6 Violinist Vanessa-Mae.
7 United Arab Emirates.
8 Andrea Palladio.
9 Film critics.
10 Systems for Romanising languages: Chinese; Japanese; Korean; Thai.
11 Birthplaces of King Henrys I-V.
12 Perfect numbers (equal to the sum of its positive divisors).
13 Sportsmen nicknamed Boom Boom: boxing; tennis; golf; cricket.
14 Gates of the Old City of Jerusalem.
15 Doggerland.
