The questions
1 Which trend started on a bridge in Vrnjačka Banja, Serbia?
2 Which grunge anthem was inspired by a deodorant?
3 Where is the Roodee, the world’s oldest working racecourse?
4 Who was the legendary ninth-century female pope?
5 What Chinese book of divination contains 64 hexagrams?
6 Which two countries are named after the line of zero degrees latitude?
7 What fabric is made with the help of bombyx larvae?
8 Who is the only writer to win the Booker and Baillie Gifford prizes?
What links:
9 Pudong; Lantau Island; Urayasu; Marne-la-Vallée; Lake Buena Vista; Anaheim?
10 Dachshund; African kigelia tree; bad actor; angry Brexiteer?
11 Atomic; Bullet; Crazyhouse; Dunsany’s; Entangled?
12 Vaalbara; Ur; Kenorland; Columbia; Rodinia; Pannotia; Pangea?
13 Évariste Galois; Alexander Hamilton; Mikhail Lermontov; Alexander Pushkin?
14 Colossae; Corinth; Ephesus; Galatia; Philippi; Rome; Thessaloniki?
15 Cane toad and python; octopus and mako shark; weasel and green woodpecker?
The answers
1 Lovers attaching padlocks.
2 Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit.
3 Chester.
4 Pope Joan.
5 I Ching.
6 Ecuador and Equatorial Guinea.
7 Silk.
8 Richard Flanagan.
9 Locations of Disney resorts: Shanghai; Hong Kong; Japan; France; Florida; California.
10 Pork-based nicknames: sausage dog; sausage tree; ham; gammon.
11 Chess variants.
12 Hypothetical supercontinents in Earth’s history.
13 Died in duels: French mathematician; American statesman; Russian writers.
14 Locations in the Pauline epistles in the New Testament.
15 Animals hitching a ride on the other on viral images/videos.
