The questions

1 In law, which passenger is a hypothetical reasonable person?

2 Which states dispute Nagorno-Karabakh?

3 AJP Taylor called which Italian “the only wholly admirable figure in modern history”?

4 Copra is the dried meat of what?

5 Which musical is named after the vessel Cotton Blossom?

6 In what part of the body is the bundle of His?

7 What creature is the vespula vulgaris?

8 What scale was devised by Søren Sørensen at the Carlsberg Lab?

What links:

9 Tina Fey; assisted Poirot; the founding editor of Punch; Leigh Francis?

10 Cell; plane; flu; bra; phone?

11 Paulinus; Le Scrope; Wolsey; Habgood; Hope; Sentamu?

12 Egg; trochophore; veliger; pediveliger; spat; adult?

13 Nantes; Saumur; Tours; Blois; Orléans; Nevers?

14 Fat Is A Feminist Issue and Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit?

15 King, 1066, 1483 and 1936; Pope, 1978; England football manager, 2016?

Which came first, the answer or the egg? Photograph: Alamy

The answers

1 Man on the Clapham omnibus.

2 Armenia and Azerbaijan.

3 Giuseppe Garibaldi.

4 Coconut.

5 Show Boat.

6 Heart (muscle cells).

7 Common wasp.

8 pH scale.

9 Lemons: Liz L in 30 Rock; secretary Felicity L; Mark L; plays Keith L.

10 Originally contractions, now standard words.

11 Archbishops of York.

12 Oyster life cycle.

13 Cities on the Loire.

14 Authors married: Susie Orbach and Jeanette Winterson.

15 Three office holders in each year.