The questions

1 Who flew an illegally modified Corellian YT-1300 light freighter?

2 What is called the “master gland” in the human body?

3 Which British artist designed Vienna’s chief Holocaust memorial?

4 Where would a terminal moraine be found?

5 What is compared by the OECD’s Pisa study?

6 Which book inspired a Pinter play and a Robin Williams film?

7 What is the only Olympic host city on the Black Sea?

8 The letters MHK indicate a member of which parliament?

What links:

9 Changeup; cutter; splitter; slider; forkball; two-seam?

10 Arod; Bill; Fatty Lumpkin; Hasufel; Shadowfax; Windfola?

11 Smetana opera; Rodin and Brâncuși sculptures; Munch and Klimt paintings?

12 Mount Hermon and the Dead Sea?

13 Robert Frost; Maya Angelou and Miller Williams; Elizabeth Alexander and Richard Blanco?

14 Meadow and rock (resident); tree (in summer); water (in winter)?

15 Helen of Troy; Clytemnestra; Castor and Pollux; Timandra?

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The answers

1 Han Solo et al (Millennium Falcon in Star Wars).

2 Pituitary.

3 Rachel Whiteread.

4 Edge of a glacier.

5 International educational standards.

6 Awakenings by Oliver Sacks (A Kind Of Alaska and Awakenings).

7 Sochi, Russia.

8 House of Keys, Tynwald (Isle of Man).

9 Baseball pitches.

10 Horses and ponies in Tolkien’s Middle-earth.

11 The Kiss.

12 River Jordan.

13 Poets at US presidential inaugurations: Kennedy; Clinton; Obama.

14 UK pipits.

15 Offspring of Leda in Greek myth.