The questions
1 Which toy giant was founded by Ole Kirk Christiansen?
2 Which insectivore is the world’s most-trafficked mammal?
3 What 1970 announcement began “Spring is here and Leeds play Chelsea tomorrow”?
4 What rank was Prince Harry when he left the army?
5 In 1879, what was the first artificial sweetener to be synthesised?
6 Where is the Ayrton light and what does it indicate?
7 What old unit was the distance a person could walk in an hour?
8 Which fictional sisters called their mother Marmee?
What links:
9 Palmate; smooth; great crested?
10 Victoria Holt; Philippa Carr; Eleanor Burford; Jean Plaidy; Kathleen Kellow?
11 Things (song); Murder (podcast); Year (film); Martian (TV series)?
12 Petro; Cardano; Verge; Monero; Ethereum; Dash?
13 Mario Zagallo; Franz Beckenbauer; Didier Deschamps?
14 Monmouth (Lucy Walter); Plymouth (Catherine Pegge); Southampton (Barbara Palmer); St Albans (Nell Gwyn)?
15 Pharaohs; soul; white; tine; fourth?
The answers
1 Lego.
2 Pangolin (scaly anteater).
3 Break-up of the Beatles press release.
4 Captain.
5 Saccharin.
6 Top of the Elizabeth Tower, shows Parliament is sitting (currently switched off).
7 League.
8 March sisters (Little Women).
9 British newts.
10 All pseudonyms of the writer Eleanor Hibbert.
11 My Favorite (sic) titles.
12 Cryptocurrencies.
13 Won World Cup as player and manager.
14 Ennobled illegitimate children of Charles II and their mothers.
15 Homophones of shipping forecast areas: Faeroes; Sole; Wight; Tyne; Forth.
