What links Leonard Cohen, Amelia Earhart and Graham Nash? The Saturday quiz

1 What is unique about the time in Cape Verde?
2 What is typically sold from a Whitby Morrison Mondial Lusso?
3 When flying, the Valsalva manoeuvre would be used to do what?
4 Which record producer’s headstone reads “creator of the Manchester sound”?
5 Which game began in the Green Hill Zone?
6 Badr, fought in 624AD, is the only battle mentioned by name in which book?
7 The fake snow in The Wizard of Oz was made from which hazardous material?
8 Which teams made up Scottish football’s New Firm?
What links:
9 Leonard Cohen; Amelia Earhart; David Geffen; Graham Nash; Cary Raditz?
10 Jamestown colony; British Museum; Irish hospitals until 1987; Millennium Dome?
11 Eight carpals; five metacarpals; 14 phalanges?
12 Kim Woodburn and Aggie MacKenzie; Marie Kondo; Sophie Hinchliffe?
13 And Then There Were None; Anne of Green Gables; Lord of the Flies; The Admirable Crichton; The Tempest?
14 Colin McRae, 1995; Richard Burns, 2001; Elfyn Evans, 2026?
15 Blood; Beethoven’s; Man; Protocol; Element; Sense?

The answers

1 Only sovereign state to have time at GMT -1.
2 Ice-cream (leading ice-cream van model).
3 Equalise ear pressure.
4 Martin Hannett (d.1991).
5 Sonic the Hedgehog.
6 Qur’an.
7 Asbestos.
8 Aberdeen and Dundee United (1980s).
9 Inspired songs by Joni Mitchell: Rainy Night House; Amelia; Free Man in Paris; Willy; Carey.
10 Lottery-funded projects.
11 Bones in a hand.
12 Cleaning and tidying influencers.
13 Literary works set on islands.
14 British winners of the World Rally Championship.
15 Film titles with ordinal numbers: First B; B’s 2nd; The Third M; The Fourth P; The Fifth E; The Sixth S.