The questions

1 Who overcame the Curse of the Billy Goat?

2 Which place name is on the Royal Marines’ cap badge?

3 Where did Aunt Ada Doom get a nasty shock?

4 Who married on 29 April 1945 and died the next day?

5 What type of cell can be embryonic or adult, from bone marrow?

6 Which currency was proposed in 2008 by Satoshi Nakamoto?

7 What was proved by discoveries at L’Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland?

8 Alan Steadman from Dundee is the new voice of what?

What links:

9 York and Selby; Lewes and Newhaven; King’s Lynn?

10 Bomba; bamboo; Camargue red; japonica; carnaroli; vialone?

11 Spring and Autumn; Warring States; Three Kingdoms?

12 Isaiah Berlin; Vladimir Nabokov; Joseph Brodsky; Ayn Rand?

13 Uptown Funk; Help; Instant Karma; Word Up; Sandinista?

14 Beggars Of Life; Pandora’s Box; Diary Of A Lost Girl; Miss Europe?

15 Hedgehogs; dormice; bats?

Can’t see the wood for the trees? Photograph: Getty Images

The answers

1 Chicago Cubs baseball team.

2 Gibraltar.

3 Woodshed (Cold Comfort Farm).

4 Hitler and Eva Braun.

5 Stem cell.

6 Bitcoin.

7 Norse/Viking presence in North America.

8 BT Speaking Clock.

9 Stand on different Ouse rivers: Yorkshire; Sussex; Norfolk (Great Ouse).

10 Varieties of rice.

11 Periods of Chinese history.

12 Writers born in St Petersburg/Leningrad.

13 Songs/albums with exclamation mark: Mark Ronson; Beatles; John Lennon; Cameo; the Clash.

14 Films starring Louise Brooks.

15 British mammals that hibernate.