The questions

1 Which novel starts with a failed suicide attempt on Cricklewood Broadway?

2 Which animal was once known as the camelopard?

3 What was carved up by the Sykes–Picot agreement?

4 Which two elements are named after dwarf planets?

5 Which TV series has been pirated more than a billion times this year?

6 Which cricketer scored 199 first-class centuries?

7 Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni is the world’s largest what?

8 Who was overthrown by the 1986 People Power Revolution?

What links:

9 Grant Wood; Nan Wood Graham and Dr Byron McKeeby?

10 Saqqara and Giza; Hellinikon; Teotihuacan and Cholula; Srirangam?

11 Jacques Anquetil, 1963; Bernard Hinault, 1978; Chris Froome, 2017?

12 Shallow Grave; Trainspotting; The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie; Burke And Hare?

13 Tectonic; volcanic; collapse; explosion?

14 Sarah Burton; Elizabeth Emanuel; Lindka Cierach; Norman Hartnell?

15 Human (1); Time Lord (2); octopus (3)?

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The answers

1 Zadie Smith’s White Teeth.

2 Giraffe.

3 Middle East/Ottoman Empire.

4 Plutonium and Cerium (Pluto and Ceres).

5 Game Of Thrones.

6 Jack Hobbs.

7 Salt flat.

8 Ferdinand Marcos (the Philippines).

9 American Gothic: painter; sister and dentist (models).

10 Pyramid locations: Egypt; Greece; Mexico; India.

11 Tour de France and Vuelta double.

12 Films set in Edinburgh.

13 Types of earthquake.

14 Designed royal wedding dresses: Kate Middleton; Diana Spencer; Sarah Ferguson; the Queen.

15 Number of hearts.