The questions
1 Who flew an illegally modified Corellian YT-1300 light freighter?
2 What is called the “master gland” in the human body?
3 Which British artist designed Vienna’s chief Holocaust memorial?
4 Where would a terminal moraine be found?
5 What is compared by the OECD’s Pisa study?
6 Which book inspired a Pinter play and a Robin Williams film?
7 What is the only Olympic host city on the Black Sea?
8 The letters MHK indicate a member of which parliament?
What links:
9 Changeup; cutter; splitter; slider; forkball; two-seam?
10 Arod; Bill; Fatty Lumpkin; Hasufel; Shadowfax; Windfola?
11 Smetana opera; Rodin and Brâncuși sculptures; Munch and Klimt paintings?
12 Mount Hermon and the Dead Sea?
13 Robert Frost; Maya Angelou and Miller Williams; Elizabeth Alexander and Richard Blanco?
14 Meadow and rock (resident); tree (in summer); water (in winter)?
15 Helen of Troy; Clytemnestra; Castor and Pollux; Timandra?
The answers
1 Han Solo et al (Millennium Falcon in Star Wars).
2 Pituitary.
3 Rachel Whiteread.
4 Edge of a glacier.
5 International educational standards.
6 Awakenings by Oliver Sacks (A Kind Of Alaska and Awakenings).
7 Sochi, Russia.
8 House of Keys, Tynwald (Isle of Man).
9 Baseball pitches.
10 Horses and ponies in Tolkien’s Middle-earth.
11 The Kiss.
12 River Jordan.
13 Poets at US presidential inaugurations: Kennedy; Clinton; Obama.
14 UK pipits.
15 Offspring of Leda in Greek myth.
