The questions

1 Which prisoner was buried in Paris in 1703 under the name Marchioly?

2 Which dog played himself in the 1966 film The Spy With A Cold Nose?

3 When does Google suggest, “Did you mean: nag a ram?”

4 In antiquity, what were Mons Calpe and Mons Abila?

5 What 1980s all-female entertainment was GLOW?

6 Which literary couple lived at Casa Guidi, Florence?

7 Which German football teams contest the Revierderby?

8 What device might have a rack and snail mechanism?

What links:

9 Daniel; Lucy; Benny; Guy; Jeannie; Nikita?

10 St Bernadette; Lenin; Mao; Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il; Jeremy Bentham?

11 Marmota monax; February 2; Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania?

12 Maria Manuela of Portugal; Mary I of England; Elizabeth of Valois; Anna of Austria?

13 Babkin; parachute; palmar grasp; Galant; Landau; plantar?

14 Kerry Hill; Cheviot; Romney; Herdwick; Rough Fell; Swaledale?

15 ALICE; ATLAS; CMS; TOTEM; LHCb; LHCf; MoEDAL?

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The answers

1 The Man in the Iron Mask.

2 Pickles.

3 Searching for anagram.

4 The Pillars of Hercules.

5 Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling.

6 Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

7 Borussia Dortmund and Schalke 04.

8 A striking clock.

9 Names in Elton John hits.

10 Bodies on public display.

11 Groundhog Day: groundhog; date; setting for film.

12 Married Philip II of Spain.

13 Primitive reflexes in infants.

14 Native British sheep breeds.

15 Experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at Cern.