The questions

1 Who were the intended victims of the St Brice’s Day massacre?

2 Which celebrated address is at NW1 6XE?

3 What is notable about “Gimme a whiskey, ginger ale on the side”?

4 The restored Amber Room is in which palace?

5 Which spread was first sold as loaves of “Pasta Gianduja” in 1946?

6 The Morrison Formation in the western US is a famous source of what?

7 Why would a twitcher welcome an RBA message?

8 Which two particles make up the nucleus of an atom?

What links:

9 Three-toed sloth; yes in the Commons; first person pronoun; optical organ?

10 Josef “Sepp” Herberger; Helmut Schön; Franz Beckenbauer; Joachim Löw?

11 Lennie James; Keeley Hawes; Daniel Mays; Thandie Newton?

12 Carpal; metacarpal; phalanges?

13 Jandowae, Queensland and west of Penong, South Australia (5,531km)?

14 Codrington; Signet; Maughan; Parker; John Rylands?

15 Letsie III; Mswati III; Mohammed VI?

What’s the matter? Not got the answer? Photograph: Shutterstock

The answers

1 Danes in England (1002).

2 221b Baker St.

3 Greta Garbo’s first screen words (in Anna Christie).

4 Catherine Palace, outside St Petersburg.

5 Nutella.

6 Dinosaur fossils.

7 It’s a rare bird alert.

8 Protons and neutrons.

9 Homophones: ai; aye; I; eye.

10 World Cup-winning German managers.

11 Played investigated officers in Line of Duty.

12 Types of bone in the hand.

13 Dingo/dog fence.

14 Libraries: Oxford; Edinburgh; London; Cambridge; Manchester.

15 African kings: Lesotho; Swaziland; Morocco.