The questions
1 What was the first spacecraft to fly beyond Mars?
2 Which marsupials live wild in the UK?
3 Which 1999 film pioneered the “bullet time” effect?
4 What’s the difference between Bergamo’s football team and Georgia’s state capital?
5 Which pharmaceutical giant is Britain’s first £200bn company?
6 Which leading Nazi wrote the memoir Inside the Third Reich?
7 What are the bubbles in bubble tea made from?
8 Anxiety, Ennui and Envy are characters in which film?
What links:
9 Brideshead Revisited; Gaudy Night; Last Seen Wearing; Northern Lights?
10 Basket toss; cradle catch; cupie; herkie; thigh stand?
11 The Chordettes; Culture Beat; ELO; the Killers; Shabba Ranks; Alexandra Stan?
12 Milan-Cortina d’Ampezzo; Los Angeles; French Alps; Brisbane?
13 Henrietta Maria; Catherine of Braganza; Camilla Parker Bowles?
14 Catalina; Big Sur; Monterey; Ventura; Sonoma?
15 Chad and Romania; Monaco and Indonesia; New Zealand and Australia?
The answers
1 Pioneer 10.
2 Wallabies.
3 The Matrix.
4 Letter A (Atalanta and Atlanta).
5 AstraZeneca.
6 Albert Speer.
7 Tapioca.
8 Inside Out 2.
9 Novels set in Oxford: Evelyn Waugh; Dorothy L Sayers; Colin Dexter; Philip Pullman.
10 Cheerleading terms.
11 Hits with Mr … songs: Sandman; Vain; Blue Sky; Brightside; Loverman; Saxobeat.
12 Forthcoming Olympic/Paralympic venues.
13 Queens consort of King Charles I, II and III.
14 Recent Mac operating systems.
15 Almost identical flags.