The questions
1 Which Eurostar destination is named from the French for “island”?
2 What is covered by a cloth called the kiswa?
3 Which musician wrote Orlam, a verse novel in Dorset dialect?
4 What ubiquitous items are made by De La Rue?
5 Which ship was renamed Panteleimon in 1905?
6 The A303 passes by which ancient monument?
7 Who is the only player with 100 Premier League goals for two clubs?
8 The main asteroid belt lies between which planets’ orbits?
What links:
9 Waugh and Gardner in 1928; Lautner and Dome in 2022?
10 Heseltine; Prescott; Clegg; Raab; Coffey; Raab again?
11 Ciambella; Bundt; Gugelhupf; Savarin?
12 Ariane Matiakh; Marin Alsop; Alice Farnham; JoAnn Falletta?
13 Schadenfreude; malice; vagabond; congous?
14 Juventus; New York Times; Florence Nightingale; okra?
15 NCR (Canada); NCT (India); ACT (Australia); DC (US)?
The answers
1 Lille.
2 Kaaba in Mecca.
3 PJ Harvey.
4 Banknotes.
5 Battleship Potemkin.
6 Stonehenge.
7 Alan Shearer (Blackburn and Newcastle).
8 Mars and Jupiter.
9 Married couples with same first name: Evelyn; Taylor.
10 Deputy prime ministers.
11 Ring-shaped cakes.
12 Conductors.
13 Hidden African countries: Chad; Mali; Gabon; Congo.
14 Lady nicknames: Old Lady; Gray Lady; Lady with the lamp; lady’s fingers.
15 Capital regions: National Capital Region (Ottawa); National Capital Territory (of Delhi/New Delhi); Australian Capital Territory (Canberra); District of Columbia (Washington).