What links the pegasus and the puffin? The Weekend quiz

Flight of the imagination … the winged horse pegasus at the Festival of Light at Longleat House, Wiltshire. Photograph: Ben Birchall/PA

The questions

1 Who was declared son of the god Amun in 332 BC?
2 What is the UK’s smallest rodent?
3 Ecuador’s Archipiélago de Colón is better known as what?
4 Who reads the newspaper Inside Time?
5 What precedes “and Nathan the prophet” in a famous anthem?
6 Peter Bottomley inherited which title from Ken Clarke?
7 The Spanish Armada sailed from which city?
8 Which horse race might have been the Bunbury?

What links:
9 Kingdom (1795); republic (1894); territory (1900); state (1959)?
10 Pegasus; pelican; puffin; toucan; zebra?
11 Weakest Link; The Apprentice; Gillette Soccer Saturday?
12 Survival; Creative; Adventure; Spectator; Hardcore?
13 Sixty days after Easter; Texan city; Oxford and Cambridge colleges?
14 Pennywise; Rigoletto; Yorick; Arlecchino?
15 Amanda Gorman; nobody; Richard Blanco; Elizabeth Alexander?

Anne Robinson, former host of Weakest Link. Photograph: Mike Hogan/PA

The answers

1 Alexander the Great.
2 Harvest mouse.
3 Galápagos Islands.
4 Prisoners.
5 Zadok the Priest (Handel).
6 Father of the House (longest-serving MP).
7 Lisbon.
8 The Derby.
9 Hawaii (legal status).
10 Pedestrian crossings.
11 Previous shows of recent Countdown hosts: Anne Robinson; Nick Hewer; Jeff Stelling.
12 Minecraft game modes.
13 Corpus Christi.
14 Fictional clowns/jesters: Stephen King’s It; Verdi opera; Hamlet; commedia dell’arte.
15 Poets at the last four US presidential inaugurations.