The Door to Hell gas crater in Turkmenistan

The questions

1 Ten Percent by Double Exposure was the first commercially available what?
2 What are listed in a catalogue raisonné?
3 Which radical group assembled at St George’s Hill, Surrey in 1649?
4
Which animal breastfeeds for up to eight years?
5 Where is the gas crater known as the Door to Hell?
6 Which building in Virginia has 67 acres of parking spaces?
7 Whose chariot was pulled by a pair of goats?
8 Meteorologist James Stagg recommended the date for what event?
What links:
9
Istanbul (1923); Rio de Janeiro (1960); Lagos (1991); Yangon (2006)?
10 Alcman; Alcaeus; Pindar; Sappho; Simonides?
11 CPIH; CPI; RPI?
12 Collar; eyelet; strobel; swoosh; tongue; vamp?
13 Grand Duchess Anastasia; Martin Bormann; Elvis Presley; Tupac Shakur?
14 Algiers; Britain; the Century; Midway; the Sexes?
15 Desdemona’s strawberry handkerchief and Shakira’s strawberry jam?

Know all about the Door to Hell? Photograph: Jonathan Murrish/Getty Images/EyeEm

The answers

1 12-inch single.
2 An artist’s complete works.
3 Diggers (or True Levellers).
4 Orangutan.
5 Turkmenistan (Darvaza).
6 Pentagon.
7 Thor.
8 D-day landings.
9 Lost status as capital city, replaced by: Ankara; Brasilia; Abuja; Nay Pyi Taw.
10 Ancient Greek lyric poets.
11 UK indices of price inflation.
12 Parts of (Nike) trainers.
13 Dead people persistently rumoured to be alive.
14 Films: The Battle of… titles.
15 Evidence of infidelity (real or imagined).

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