The questions
1 Which Paul Newman character ate around 3,750 calories in an hour?
2 Which state was established by the Lateran Treaty?
3 Currently Kathleen Jamie, what is the Scots Makar?
4 Lucifers and Prometheans were early types of what items?
5 What did Lloyd George call “Mr Balfour’s poodle”?
6 Which sportsperson carries a coffin?
7 What is Dorset’s celebrated tombolo?
8 Which big cat’s name comes from the Tupi-Guarani language?
What links:
9 Heracles; David; Abishai; Jack?
10 Coelacanths; Elephants; Atlas Lions; Scorpions; Blue Sharks?
11 Princess Beatrice (b 1857); Jean-Claude Duvalier; Frances Houseman?
12 Malaysia (Borneo); Papua New Guinea (New Guinea); East Timor (Timor)?
13 Shiva; New Zealand tuatara; Blinky in The Simpsons?
14 From Here to Eternity; East Is East; Power of the Dog; If … ?
15 Grey; Viviani; Sazonov; von Jagow; Berchtold?
The answers
1 Luke Jackson (in Cool Hand Luke: 50 eggs at 75 calories each).
2 Vatican City.
3 National poet.
4 Matches.
5 House of Lords.
6 Cricketer (equipment bag).
7 Chesil beach (spit linking an island to the mainland).
8 Jaguar.
9 Giant killers: Antaeus; Goliath; Ishbibenob; Cormoran.
10 African football nicknames: Comoros; Ivory Coast; Morocco; Gambia; Cape Verde.
11 Known as Baby: by Queen Victoria; Baby Doc, Haitian leader; Baby in Dirty Dancing.
12 Land borders of Indonesia (and the island).
13 Three eyes: Hindi deity; lizard-like reptile with parietal eye; fish.
14 Films with titles borrowed from Rudyard Kipling.
15 Foreign ministers on outbreak of first world war: Britain; France; Russia; Germany; Austria-Hungary.
