The questions

1 Who burned a million pounds on the island of Jura?

2 Which countries signed the Anti-Comintern Pact in 1936?

3 Who “make me sick… make me tired” in a Dorothy Parker poem?

4 What cattle disease was declared eradicated in 2011?

5 Umkhonto we Sizwe was the armed wing of which political party?

6 In what city is the art-lined Vasari Corridor?

7 Who was killed by the blood of the centaur Nessus?

8 Which singer launched the Fenty Beauty brand?

What links:

9 Niobe; Vanadis; Titans; Thor; Tantalus?

10 Split; stag; cat; ring; sissonne; tuck; pike?

11 Gotland; Saaremaa; Oland; Lolland; Hiiumaa?

12 Lady Gaga; Kim Carnes; Madness; Mika; Gorillaz?

13 Hoover; Landon; Willkie; Dewey?

14 Helmsley and Filey, round the North York Moors?

15 Matilda of Flanders; Eleanor of Aquitaine; Henrietta Maria; Anne Hyde; Mary of Teck?

Madness filming Our House in 1982. Photograph: Redferns

The answers

1 K Foundation (Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty).

2 Germany and Japan.

3 Men.

4 Rinderpest (cattle plague).

5 African National Congress.

6 Florence.

7 Heracles.

8 Rihanna.

9 Mythological figures who gave names to elements: Niobium; Vanadium; Titanium; Thorium; Tantalum.

10 Leaps and jumps in gymnastics.

11 Islands in the Baltic Sea.

12 Actors in titles of songs: John Wayne; Bette Davis Eyes; Michael Caine; Grace Kelly; Clint Eastwood.

13 Defeated by FD Roosevelt in US presidential elections: 1932; 1936; 1940; 1944.

14 Cleveland Way national trail.

15 Mothers of two monarchs: William II and Henry I; Richard I and John; Charles II and James II; Mary II and Anne; Edward VIII and George VI.