What links Marketa Vondrousova with Boris Becker? The Saturday quiz

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From pandemonium to Richard Nixon, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz

1 Whose autobiography is the fastest-selling non-fiction book ever?
2 India’s Gir Forest is home to Asia’s last population of which cats?
3 Who referred to herself as Jehanne la pucelle?
4 What peaked in Britain in 1913 at 292m tonnes?
5 The Höfner 500/1 Violin Bass was whose trademark instrument?
6 What fashion retailer is Lithuania’s first tech “unicorn” company?
7 Kakheti and Kartli are wine regions in which country?
8 Richard Nixon was obsessed with which 1970 war film?
What links:
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Marketa Vondrousova; Goran Ivanisevic; Boris Becker?
10 Cornwall; Japan; Venice; Tower of London; Portsmouth?
11 Hephaestus; Tubal-cain; Vulcan; Wayland?
12 Acadia; Grand Teton; Joshua Tree; Olympic; Zion?
13 Complacency; debauchery; earthshaking; enjoyable; pandemonium; terrific?
14 Cardross, 1329; Spain (postmortem); Melrose Abbey (currently)?
15 Triad; Jura mountains; chalk?

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