The questions
1 Whose autobiography is the fastest-selling non-fiction book ever?
2 India’s Gir Forest is home to Asia’s last population of which cats?
3 Who referred to herself as Jehanne la pucelle?
4 What peaked in Britain in 1913 at 292m tonnes?
5 The Höfner 500/1 Violin Bass was whose trademark instrument?
6 What fashion retailer is Lithuania’s first tech “unicorn” company?
7 Kakheti and Kartli are wine regions in which country?
8 Richard Nixon was obsessed with which 1970 war film?
What links:
9 Marketa Vondrousova; Goran Ivanisevic; Boris Becker?
10 Cornwall; Japan; Venice; Tower of London; Portsmouth?
11 Hephaestus; Tubal-cain; Vulcan; Wayland?
12 Acadia; Grand Teton; Joshua Tree; Olympic; Zion?
13 Complacency; debauchery; earthshaking; enjoyable; pandemonium; terrific?
14 Cardross, 1329; Spain (postmortem); Melrose Abbey (currently)?
15 Triad; Jura mountains; chalk?
The answers
1 Prince Harry (Spare).
2 Lions.
3 Joan of Arc.
4 Coal production.
5 Paul McCartney.
6 Vinted.
7 Georgia.
8 Patton.
9 Unseeded open-era Wimbledon singles champions.
10 Settings of Gilbert and Sullivan operas: Pirates of Penzance; Mikado; Gondoliers; Yeomen of the Guard; HMS Pinafore.
11 Blacksmiths: Greek god; Book of Genesis; Roman god; Germanic myth.
12 US national parks.
13 Words coined (or use first recorded) by John Milton.
14 Robert the Bruce’s heart: stopped beating; taken on crusade; finally buried.
15 Name origins of the periods of the Mesozoic era: Triassic; Jurassic; Cretaceous.
