The questions

1 Emily Firmin was the only human in which children’s TV series?
2 What is the most spoken language written in Devanagari script?
3 Which brothers were, respectively, King of Scots and High King of Ireland?
4 What is the pan-European emergency telephone number?
5 Who has trained a record 12 Epsom Derby winners?
6 Where is the bus station a classic of brutalist architecture?
7 Who is said to have found the True Cross in Jerusalem in the fourth century?
8 Whose last general election victory was in 1906?
What links:
9 Photographed by Luna 3; Berlin 1961-89; Judith Chalmers series; Wind in the Willows, ch 7?
10 Adventure Galley; Fancy; Queen Anne’s Revenge; Royal Fortune; Whydah?
11 Daedalus; George London and Henry Wise; Adrian Fisher?
12 LA Dodgers; San Francisco Giants; New York Jets; New York Giants?
13 Maestro; Taking Sides; Tár; Unfaithfully Yours?
14 Satoshi; Wei; lamport; lovelace?
15 John II; Louis Philippe I; Napoleon III?

In a muddle over the Maestro clue? … Bradley Cooper as composer Leonard Bernstein. Photograph: FlixPix/Alamy

The answers

1 Bagpuss.
2 Hindi.
3 Robert the Bruce and Edward Bruce.
4 112.
5 Aidan O’Brien.
6 Preston.
7 St Helena (Emperor Constantine’s mother).
8 Liberal party (Campbell-Bannerman).
9 Pink Floyd albums: The Dark Side of the Moon; The Wall; Wish You Were Here; The Piper at the Gates of Dawn.
10 Pirate ships: Captain Kidd; Henry Every; Blackbeard; Bartholomew Roberts; Sam Bellamy.
11 Famous maze designers: Cretan labyrinth in myth; Hampton Court maze; present day.
12 Sports teams that have moved out of New York (NY Jets and Giants NFL sides now play in New Jersey).
13 Films about conductors.
14 Subdivisions of cryptocurrencies: bitcoin; Ethereum; Solana; Cardano.
15 French rulers who died in exile in England: 1364; 1850; 1873.