Which awards were founded by the late Kanya King? The Saturday quiz

The questions

1 What is the UK’s single most dispensed medicine?
2 Fólkvangr was the alternative destination to where?
3 In June 2026, which pottery firm ended production after 217 years?
4 Which religion’s calendar is determined by moon sighting committees?
5 The Filipino Efren Reyes is considered the GOAT of what indoor game?
6 Which awards were founded by the late Kanya King?
7 Which Cossack inspired works by Byron, Pushkin, Liszt and Tchaikovsky?
8 Which US state is said to have been ruled by six flags?
What links:
9 Black-footed; Fishing; Geoffroy’s; Pallas’s; Sand?
10 Countdown; The Body Show; Brookside; Walter; Five Go Mad in Dorset?
11 Hjalmar Schacht (minister of economics); Franz von Papen (vice-chancellor); Hans Fritzsche (propagandist)?
12 Murchison Promontory, Nunavut; Cape Nordkinn, Finnmark; Cape Chelyuskin, Siberia?
13 Little Miss Sunshine; Barbie and White Noise; The Hurt Locker and Titanic?
14 Adversary; Agent; Garden; History; Pilgrim?
15 Rome, 390BC; Ballantine’s warehouse, Dumbarton; São Pedro de Alcântara prison, Brazil?

Asleep at the wheel over the pottery clue? Photograph: Richard Drury/Getty Images

The answers

1 Atorvastatin.
2 Valhalla (for warriors slain in battle).
3 Denby.
4 Islam.
5 Pool
6 Mobos.
7 Ivan Mazepa.
8 Texas: Spain; France; Mexico; Republic of Texas; Confederacy; US.
9 Small wild cats.
10 Programmes shown on the launch day of Channel 4.
11 Acquitted at the Nuremberg trials.
12 Most northerly points: North America (Canada); Europe (Norway); Asia (Russia).
13 Films whose directors are/were married: Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris; Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach; Kathryn Bigelow and James Cameron.
14 Novels titled The Secret … : Agatha Christie; Joseph Conrad; Frances Hodgson Burnett; Donna Tartt; John le Carré.
15 Guarded by geese.