The questions

1 Who said, “There’s something wrong with our bloody ships today”?

2 What did Philippe Petit do on 6 August, 1974?

3 What title did Afterglow Miami Ink win in March?

4 Which country’s name comes from the Latin for “southern”?

5 In the outer solar system, what is a KBO?

6 Which two US presidents were born west of the Rockies?

7 Who was Katerina Izmailova in the title of a 1934 opera?

8 What is the UK’s smallest bird of prey?

What links:

9 Rashidun; Umayyad; Abbasid?

10 Lucy Maud; Susan Eloise; Phyllis Dorothy; Pamela Lyndon?

11 West Kennet Avenue; the Sanctuary; Silbury and Windmill Hills; Long Barrow?

12 2 (Leo McKern, Georgina Cookson et al); 6 (Patrick McGoohan); 42 (Kathleen Breck)?

13 You Want It Darker; Blackstar; HitnRun Phase Two?

14 Honshu and Hokkaido, under the Tsugaru Strait?

15 Hobo; wolf; brown recluse; garden; grass?

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The answers

1 Admiral Beatty at the Battle of Jutland.

2 High-wire walk at the World Trade Center.

3 Best in Show at Crufts.

4 Australia.

5 Kuiper Belt Object.

6 Barack Obama and Richard Nixon.

7 Lady Macbeth Of The Mtsensk District (Shostakovich).

8 The merlin.

9 Early Islamic caliphates.

10 Authors’ initials: LM Montgomery; SE Hinton; PD James; PL Travers.

11 Parts of the Avebury world heritage site.

12 Number characters in The Prisoner TV series.

13 Final studio albums by casualties of 2016: Leonard Cohen; David Bowie; Prince.

14 Seikan Tunnel.

15 North American spiders.