The questions
1 Which namesake comic strips debuted in the UK and US in March 1951?
2 Who set the therapeutic “hour” at 50 minutes?
3 The wryneck belongs to what bird family?
4 The Swedish YouTube star Felix Kjellberg has what alias?
5 In meteorology, what is measured in units called oktas?
6 What is flavoured with the secret 7X formula?
7 Who was “a very fine cat indeed”?
8 The Lucasian Chair is a professorship of what, where?
What links:
9 Audrey Hepburn; Ludmila Savelyeva; Morag Hood; Lily James?
10 Élysée Palace; Hôtel Matignon; Luxembourg Palace; Palais Bourbon?
11 Fuleco the armadillo; Zakumi the leopard; Goleo the lion?
12 Vamp; quarter; throat; tongue; welt?
13 The Watsons; Emma Brown; Wives And Daughters?
14 La Paz; Quito; Bogotá; Addis Ababa; Asmara?
15 J Robert Oppenheimer; Nixon and Mao; Achille Lauro hijacking?
The answers
1 Dennis the Menace.
2 Sigmund Freud.
3 Woodpeckers.
4 PewDiePie.
5 Amount of cloud cover.
6 Coca-Cola.
7 Hodge (according to Samuel Johnson).
8 Mathematics, Cambridge.
9 Played Natasha Rostova in War And Peace adaptations.
10 Homes of French president; PM; Senate; National Assembly.
11 Mascots for last three Fifa World Cups.
12 Parts of a shoe.
13 Unfinished 19th-century novels: Jane Austen; Charlotte Brontë; Elizabeth Gaskell.
14 Five highest capital cities: Bolivia; Ecuador; Colombia; Ethiopia; Eritrea.
15 Subjects of John Adams operas: Doctor Atomic; Nixon In China; The Death Of Klinghoffer.
