What links cricket clothing, Delta music and Polanski? The Saturday quiz

From a 1957 novel on a 37-metre-long scroll to a pair of Aris Isotoner Light gloves, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz

The questions

1 What is the only Asian country wholly in the southern hemisphere?
2 Which cross-Channel service ended in 2000 after 32 years?
3 What 1957 novel was typed on a 37-metre-long scroll?
4 Which two sportswear giants are based in the Bavarian town of Herzogenaurach?
5 Which singer and activist was nicknamed Mama Africa?
6 Pfas are popularly known as what by environmentalists?
7 A pair of Aris Isotoner Lights gloves played a central role in what event?
8 About which operation did Churchill say “wars are not won by evacuations”?
What links:
9 Jonathan and Oscar Cainer; Debbie Frank; Sally Kirkman; Shelley von Strunckel?
10 Cricket clothing; Lucas and Polanski; Delta music; NZ rugby?
11 Syra (I); Philometor Soteira (II and III); Tryphaena (V); Thea Philopator (VII)?
12 Regnum defende and semper occultus?
13 Black Dyke; Brighouse and Rastrick; Cory; Grimethorpe Colliery?
14 Benjamin Franklin; Michelle Kwan; Clare Boothe Luce; Shirley Temple?
15 Arabic (Roman); Dutch (Calicut); Portuguese (Peru); French and Turkish (Indian)?

The answers

1 Timor-Leste (formerly East Timor).
2 Hovercraft.
3 On the Road by Jack Kerouac.
4 Adidas and Puma.
5 Miriam Makeba.
6 Forever chemicals (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances).
7 Trial of OJ Simpson.
8 Operation Dynamo (Dunkirk evacuation).
9 Astrologers in the media.
10 Colours: whites; Greens; blues; (All) Blacks.
11 Bynames of Egyptian Cleopatra queens.
12 Mottoes of MI5 and MI6.
13 Celebrated brass bands.
14 US ambassadors who were famous in other fields: founding father and polymath; figure skater; writer; film star.
15 Etymologies in various languages of the word for the turkey.