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

From carpals, metacarpals and phalanges to the Valsalva manoeuvre, test your knowledge with 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?

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.