The questions

1 Which broadcaster spent 182 days in the Linton Travel Tavern?

2 What was abolished by the 1968 Theatres Act?

3 What are stored in a parc fermé?

4 Who is the only British woman to have won a Nobel prize for science?

5 Politically, what began as PEOPLE in 1972?

6 Erskine Childers said, “Come closer, boys. It will be easier for you” to whom?

7 Which brand has a silver tabby British Shorthair mascot?

8 Sumo’s three top-ranked wrestlers are from which country?

What links:

9 Norman Greenbaum; Doctor and the Medics; Gareth Gates and the Kumars?

10 Ramses II (KV7); Seti I (KV17); Horemheb (KV57); Tutankhamun (KV62)?

11 Maureen O’Sullivan; Brenda Joyce; Andie MacDowell; Margot Robbie?

12 Nidderdale; Forest of Bowland; Howardian Hills; Northumberland Coast; North Pennines?

13 Carolina Reaper; Trinidad Moruga Scorpion; 7 Pot Douglah; Naga Viper?

14 Tommie Smith and John Carlos, 1968; Colin Kaepernick, 2016?

15 London; Jupiter; Choral; the Great; Pathétique?

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The answers

1 Alan Partridge.

2 Theatrical censorship in the UK.

3 Racing cars (and triathlon/duathlon bikes).

4 Dorothy Hodgkin (chemistry, 1964).

5 The Green party.

6 His firing squad (1922).

7 Whiskas.

8 Mongolia.

9 No 1 single with Spirit In The Sky.

10 Egyptian pharaohs (with Valley of Kings burial designation).

11 Played Jane in Tarzan films.

12 Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty in the North of England.

13 (Very hot) chilli peppers.

14 Sporting protests: Black Power salute at Olympics; kneeling in the NFL.

15 Bynames of final completed symphonies: Haydn; Mozart; Beethoven; Schubert; Tchaikovsky.