The questions
1 Who parachuted into Scotland on 10 May 1941?
2 Which song was inspired by a split from Porter Wagoner?
3 Which letters make up the futhark alphabet?
4 What astronomical objects are known as dirty snowballs?
5 Which team played the NFL’s only perfect season?
6 The PRO and HMC merged to form which academic resource?
7 Which Englishman was posthumously declared a heretic in 1415?
8 What was “eight hours of TV so aimless it threatens your sanity”?
What links:
9 Some Pig, Terrific, Radiant, Humble?
10 Jefferson; Carson; Salt Lake; Oklahoma?
11 The Hurt Locker; Nomadland; The Power of the Dog?
12 Moon; Tyr; Odin; Thor; Frigg; Saturn; Sun?
13 Clownfish and anemones; woolly bats and pitcher plants; ants and aphids?
14 Clisson and Eugénie; The Cardinal’s Mistress; Zabibah and the King?
15 Achilles; Esfandiyār; Siegfried?
The answers
1 Rudolf Hess.
2 Dolly Parton’s I Will Always Love You.
3 Runes.
4 Comets.
5 Miami Dolphins (1972).
6 The National Archives (Public Record Office and Historical Manuscripts Commission, later joined by the Office of Public Sector Information and Her Majesty’s Stationery Office).
7 John Wycliffe.
8 The Beatles: Get Back (according to the Guardian’s Alexis Petridis).
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9 Words spun in Charlotte’s Web.
10 US state capitals missing a “city” in their names.
11 Won Oscars for female directors: Kathryn Bigelow; Chloé Zhao; Jane Campion.
12 Name origins of days of the week.
13 Examples of animal mutualism.
14 Romantic novels by leaders: Napoleon Bonaparte; Mussolini; Saddam Hussein.
15 (Almost) invulnerable mythical heroes: Greek; Iranian; Germanic.
