The questions
1 Inflation adjusted, what is the highest-grossing film of all time?
2 What was revamped in 1279, 1560, 1696, 1816 and 1971?
3 Dorothy Parker “fwowed up” in a 1928 review of which children’s classic?
4 Native to South America, what is the world’s largest bird of prey?
5 Which fabric is protected by the orb certification mark?
6 The Almanach de Gotha is a directory of what?
7 Which amusement park was opened in Vienna in 1766?
8 What British term for rare US R&B 45s was coined by Dave Godin?
What links:
9 Năstase; Connors twice; Tanner; McEnroe twice?
10 Menevia, c600; County Down, c460; Lydda, c303; Patras, c60?
11 Choral by Beethoven; The Great by Schubert; From the New World by Dvořák?
12 Reverend Joy Carroll Wallis; hotelier Donald Sinclair; US military surgeon Richard Hornberger?
13 Demon; equal; encyclopedia; eon; fairy; medieval; primeval?
14 The Tour of Life in 1979 and Before the Dawn in 2014?
15 Charles X’s sword; Corot’s The Road from Sèvres; Empress Eugénie’s tiara; Mona Lisa?

The answers
1 Gone With the Wind.
2 English/British coinage.
3 The House at Pooh Corner.
4 Andean condor.
5 Harris tweed.
6 European royalty and nobility.
7 Prater.
8 Northern soul.
9 Opponents of Björn Borg in Wimbledon finals.
10 Traditional death locations and dates of UK patron saints: St David; St Patrick; St George; St Andrew.
11 Names given to composers’ ninth symphonies.
12 Inspired sitcom characters: Geraldine Granger (Vicar of Dibley); Basil Fawlty (Fawlty Towers); Hawkeye Pierce (M*A*S*H).
13 Words formerly spelt with ae ligature.
14 Kate Bush tours/residencies.
15 Stolen from the Louvre at various times.

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