The questions
1 Whose website describes her as writer, traveller, playwright, wife, mother, surfer?
2 Where does a CME cloud originate?
3 What was explained in 1971 by the film Granny Gets The Point?
4 Which forest has England’s largest wild boar population?
5 Which two elements are named after US states?
6 What aircraft were developed at Felixstowe in the first world war?
7 Who lived by the code of Bushido?
8 Colin Kaepernick began what protest?
What links:
9 Topper; Ravel; Lady Jane; Lord John; Tom Cat; John Stephen?
10 Gottfried van Swieten (1st); Napoleon, then Prince Lobkowitz (3rd); Moritz von Fries (7th)?
11 Stars; urchins; lilies; cucumbers?
12 Alan Shepard; Buzz Aldrin; Svetlana Savitskaya?
13 Tool Time; Pucks; TGS with Tracy Jordan; When The Whistle Blows?
14 Durand Line; Radcliffe Line; McMahon Line?
15 Elephant (too big); lion (too fierce); snake (too scary); giraffe (too tall)?
The answers
1 Agatha Christie.
2 The sun (coronal mass ejection).
3 Decimalisation.
4 Forest of Dean.
5 Californium and Tennessine.
6 Flying boats/seaplanes.
7 Samurai.
8 Take a knee anthem protest in NFL.
9 Carnaby Street shops in the 1960s.
10 Dedicatees of Beethoven symphonies.
11 Marine echinoderms: sea stars, sea urchins, etc.
12 Space seconds: person in space; on moon; woman in space.
13 TV shows within sitcoms: Home Improvement; Episodes; 30 Rock; Extras.
14 Created Asian subcontinent borders: Afghan-Pakistan; Pakistan-India; India-Tibet.
15 Rejected pets in Dear Zoo children’s book.
