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What links Adil Ray, Robert Lindsay and Orson Welles? The Weekend quiz

The questions

1 The Bramble Cay melomys is said to be the first mammal to suffer what?
2 Which novel is named after a hill at Ecchinswell, Hampshire?
3 Elizabeth Holmes founded which controversial company?
4 What drink was known as the wine of Islam?
5 Whose voyage was completed by Juan Sebastián Elcano?
6 What, in Wyoming, is Old Faithful?
7 What appliance is the Aktiebolaget Gas Accumulator?
8 Which city was transformed by Baron Haussmann?
What links:
9 Adil Ray; Robert Lindsay; Orson Welles?
10 Four Temperaments; Expansive; Inextinguishable; Simple?
11 CDU; SPD; AfD; Die Linke; FDP?
12 Nucleus; coma; ion tail; dust tail?
13 Mikuru Suzuki; Deta Hedman; Lisa Ashton; Fallon Sherrock?
14 Southern Bug; Danube; Dniester; Dnieper?
15 Burn My Candle; Jackie; Lola; Je t’aime; Relax?

Smoke trailing from extinguished white candle
Candle in the mind? Photograph: Getty Images Photograph: Peter Dazeley/Getty Images

The answers

1 Extinction due to anthropogenic climate change.
2 Watership Down.
3 Theranos.
4 Coffee.
5 Magellan (first circumnavigation of the Earth).
6 Geyser (in Yellowstone National Park).
7 Aga cooker (abbreviation).
8 Paris.
9 Citizen… on TV and film: Khan; Smith; Kane.
10 Nicknames of Carl Nielsen symphonies: 2, 3, 4 and 6.
11 German political parties.
12 Visible parts of a comet.
13 Women darts players.
14 Rivers flowing into the Black Sea.
15 Songs banned by the BBC: Shirley Bassey; Scott Walker; the Kinks; Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin; Frankie Goes To Hollywood.