The questions

1 Tilcayo is the first new species of what identified in more than a century?

2 What reached 126 mph descending Stoke Bank on 3 July 1938?

3 Ranavalona I, nicknamed the “female Caligula”, was queen of which island?

4 Who won the Fifa World Cup as player, manager and assistant manager?

5 Opened in 1817, what is Britain’s oldest public art gallery?

6 119.5 seconds is the optimum time to pour which drink?

7 Which border was officially defined by the 1237 treaty of York?

8 Which on-screen partnership began with Flying Down to Rio?

What links:

9 Cingulum militare; galea; lorica; gladius and scutum?

10 Blink-182; Cream; Motörhead; The Police; Suzi Quatro; Thin Lizzy?

11 Boiler room; pig butchering; pump and dump; 419?

12 Sinbad in the Abbasid Caliphate and Admiral Zheng He in the early Ming dynasty?

13 Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier; Chopin’s 24 Preludes; Rachmaninoff’s 24 Preludes?

14 David Bowie; Albert Brooks; Hugh Dennis; Michael Keaton; Katy Perry?

15 The Dunciad; Her Kind; One Art; The Prestige?

Rhapsodising over the Rachmaninoff clue? Photograph: SuperStock/Alamy

The answers

1 Wild cat (found in Bolivia).

2 LNER Class A4 4468 Mallard (world speed record for steam locomotive).

3 Madagascar (19th century).

4 Mário Zagallo: 1958 and 1962, 1970, 1994.

5 Dulwich Picture Gallery.

6 Pint of Guinness (according to Guinness).

7 England/Scotland.

8 Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.

9 Roman legionary’s equipment: belt; helmet; armour; sword and shield.

10 Rock acts in which the singer played bass.

11 Types of scam/fraud.

12 Both famously made seven voyages.

13 Works that include all 24 major and minor keys.

14 Changed professional names to avoid confusion with other people: Davy Jones; Albert Einstein; Peter Dennis; Michael Douglas; Kate Hudson.

15 Literary works by religiously named authors: Alexander Pope; Anne Sexton; Elizabeth Bishop; Christopher Priest.