The questions

1 Which Waterloo veteran died in 1836 at the age of 28?

2 Which national park’s highest point is at 38m?

3 Whose only complete surviving poem is her Ode To Aphrodite?

4 What was located in 1985 at 41°43’57” N, 49°56’49” W?

5 Mondopoint is a system for measuring what?

6 What began as the Anglo-Persian Oil Company?

7 Anson Jones was fourth and last president of which republic?

8 The Hellanodikai were judges at what ancient event?

What links:

9 Pachisi; Carrom; Xiangqi; Shogi; Go?

10 Don’t Stop Believin’; Way Down In The Hole; Baby Blue; I’d Like To Buy The World A Coke?

11 PDO; PGI; TSG?

12 Berthe’s mouse lemur; vaquita; pygmy jerboa; long-tailed planigale?

13 Mozart’s debut composition; Mount Godwin Austen; Donald Campbell’s hydroplane; Dr Who dog?

14 Cruelty to animals; arson; chronic bedwetting?

15 São Miguel; Santa Maria; Terceira; São Jorge; Pico; Flores?

Speeding through the clues? Photograph: SSPL/Getty Images

The answers

1 Copenhagen (Wellington’s horse).

2 Broads (Strumpshaw Hill).

3 Sappho.

4 Wreck of the Titanic.

5 Feet/shoe size.

6 BP.

7 Republic of Texas.

8 Olympic Games.

9 Asian board/table games.

10 TV series finale songs: The Sopranos; The Wire; Breaking Bad; Mad Men.

11 Types of EU food and drink protection.

12 Smallest in mammal orders: primate; cetacean; rodent; marsupial.

13 K: catalogued as K1; K2; (Bluebird) K7; K9.

14 Macdonald (so-called homicidal) triad of behaviours said to be predictive of future violence.

15 Islands of the Azores.