Which British zoo has two giant pandas? The Saturday quiz

The questions

1 Which PM stated: “After I need to learn a novel I write one”?
2 The Three Counties system is a 55-mile community of what?
3 Which British zoo has two large pandas?
4 Whose priestesses took a 30-year vow of chastity?
5 The Dayak persons are indigenous to which island?
6 Which organ is almost 60% fats?
7 The USS St Lo was the primary main warship sunk by what methodology?
8 Which “uncrowned king of Eire” died in 1891?
What hyperlinks:
9
Cheshire cat; Griffin; One Ring wearers; Susan Storm?
10 Pliny; Cato; Pieter Bruegel; William Pitt?
11 Marilyn Monroe; Billie Jean King; Maxine Feibelman; Man Burchett?
12 Sinopec; Rosneft; Petrobras; Saudi Aramco?
13 .ai; .bm; .fk; .gi; .ky; .ms; .tc?
14 The Playboy of the Western World; Peter Pan;
Shame?
15 Talkative starling; digs for coal or gold; underneath 18?

Flock of starlings.
Flying excessive with the starling clue? Photograph: Javier Belver/EPA

The solutions

1 Disraeli.
2 Caves (North Yorkshire, Lancashire and Cumbria).
3 Edinburgh.
4 Vesta (Vestal Virgins).
5 Borneo.
6 Mind.
7 Kamikaze assault (1944).
8 Charles Stewart Parnell.
9 Characters who can flip invisible: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland; The Invisible Man; The Lord of the Rings; Improbable 4 comics.
10 The Elder and the Youthful.
11 Impressed Elton John (and Bernie Taupin) songs: Candle within the Wind; Philadelphia Freedom; Tiny Dancer; Tune for Man.
12 State-owned oil firms: China; Russia; Brazil; Saudi Arabia.
13 Web domains of British abroad territories: Anguilla; Bermuda; Falklands; Gibraltar; Cayman Islands; Montserrat; Turks and Caicos Islands.
14 Works by JM authors: Synge; Barrie; Coetzee.
15 Homophones: mynah; miner; minor.

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