The questions
1 Who crowned himself King of Kings in 1967?
2 VADs were wartime nurses working in what units?
3 Which Olympic champion finished fifth in the Cheltenham Foxhunter Chase?
4 Flor is a layer of yeast that forms on what drink?
5 Danger Mouse’s The Grey Album was a mashup of what?
6 What “great shift” took place in English between 1400 and 1600?
7 Which live-action Disney film stars a cat and two dogs?
8 According to Guinness, who is the most prolific composer of all time?
What links:
9 Bossy; Naughty; Neat; Sunshine; Tiny; Trouble?
10 Memory tag; age identifier; three random letters?
11 Heineken; Gazprom; MasterCard; Nissan; PepsiCo; Sony?
12 It Takes A Village; The Art Of The Deal; The Speech; A Time For Truth?
13 Moscow State University; Arctic ridge; Atlantic current; Antarctic mountains?
14 Kay Walsh; Shani Wallis; Amanda Harris; Sophie Okonedo?
15 Strato; super; shield; submarine; cinder cone?
The answers
1 Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (Shah of Iran).
2 Voluntary aid detachment.
3 Victoria Pendleton.
4 Sherry.
5 Jay Z’s Black Album and the Beatles’ ‘White’ Album.
6 Great vowel shift.
7 The Incredible Journey.
8 Georg Philipp Telemann.
9 Original Little Miss characters.
10 Components of a UK vehicle licence plate.
11 Main sponsors of UEFA Champions League.
12 Books by US presidential candidates: Clinton; Trump; Sanders; Cruz.
13 Named after Mikhail Lomonosov.
14 Played Nancy in screen versions of Oliver Twist.
15 Types of volcano.
