What links elephants to scorpions and blue sharks? The Saturday Quiz

The questions

1 Which Paul Newman character ate round 3,750 energy in an hour?
2 Which state was established by the Lateran Treaty?
3 Presently Kathleen Jamie, what's the Scots Makar?
4 Lucifers and Prometheans have been early varieties of what gadgets?
5 What did Lloyd George name “Mr Balfour’s poodle”?
6 Which sportsperson carries a coffin?
7 What's Dorset’s celebrated tombolo?
8 Which huge cat’s title comes from the Tupi-Guarani language?
What hyperlinks:
9 Heracles; David; Abishai; Jack?
10 Coelacanths; Elephants; Atlas Lions; Scorpions; Blue Sharks?
11 Princess Beatrice (b 1857); Jean-Claude Duvalier; Frances Houseman?
12 Malaysia (Borneo); Papua New Guinea (New Guinea); East Timor (Timor)?
13 Shiva; New Zealand tuatara; Blinky in The Simpsons?
14 From Right here to Eternity; East Is East; Energy of the Canine; If … ?
15 Gray; Viviani; Sazonov; von Jagow; Berchtold?

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The solutions

1 Luke Jackson (in Cool Hand Luke: 50 eggs at 75 energy every).
2 Vatican Metropolis.
3 Nationwide poet.
4 Matches.
5 Home of Lords.
6 Cricketer (tools bag).
7 Chesil seaside (spit linking an island to the mainland).
8 Jaguar.

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9 Big killers: Antaeus; Goliath; Ishbibenob; Cormoran.
10 African soccer nicknames: Comoros; Ivory Coast; Morocco; Gambia; Cape Verde.
11 Often known as Child: by Queen Victoria; Child Doc, Haitian chief; Child in Soiled Dancing.
12 Land borders of Indonesia (and the island).
13 Three eyes: Hindi deity; lizard-like reptile with parietal eye; fish.
14 Movies with titles borrowed from Rudyard Kipling.
15 Overseas ministers on outbreak of first world struggle: Britain; France; Russia; Germany; Austria-Hungary.