The questions

1 Disbanded in 1975, what was the ARVN?

2 What was originally the boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania?

3 Which film starts with a disclaimer about the name Zorin?

4 Which method of dismissal in cricket became obsolete in 2017?

5 Which European country went 589 days without an elected government?

6 What distinguishes Point Nemo, at 48°52.6’S 123°23.6’W?

7 What began life as Rowntree’s Chocolate Crisp?

8 Fire temples are places of worship in which religion?

What links:

9 Emma Stone; Steve Carell; Shia LaBeouf; Sverrir Gudnason?

10 Creeping red fescue; common bent; rye; smooth-stalked meadow?

11 Panama and Iceland, next June?

12 Lord Grey, Newcastle; Wellington, Liverpool; Nelson and Duke of York, London?

13 Burmese; Indian; African rock; reticulated; ball?

14 ICAN; OPCW; EU; IPCC; IAEA; UN; ICBL?

15 Frances Trollope; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Muriel Spark; Magdalen Nabb?

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The answers

1 South Vietnamese army.

2 Mason-Dixon Line.

3 A View To A Kill.

4 Handled the ball (now covered by obstructing the field).

5 Belgium, 2010-11.

6 Farthest point from land (oceanic pole of inaccessibility).

7 KitKat.

8 Zoroastrianism.

9 Played tennis players in 2017 films: Billie Jean King; Bobby Riggs; McEnroe; Borg.

10 Types of grass.

11 Making World Cup debuts.

12 Statues topping columns.

13 Pythons.

14 Nobel Peace prize-winning organisations.

15 British women writers who died in Florence.