The questions
1 Which of Shakespeare’s female characters has the most lines?
2 What is the only shipping forecast area named after a person?
3 Which high street chain was sold for £1 in June?
4 Where does the bánh mì sandwich come from?
5 Which TV presenter was horseracing’s champion lady rider in 1990?
6 What irritant has the botanical name Urtica dioica?
7 Which Conservative peer’s father drafted the 1945 Labour manifesto?
8 What is Africa’s largest antelope?
What links:
9 Prosecco and peach cocktail; sliced raw beef; brownish-orange hair?
10 Cutting; doglike; millstone; before millstone; wise judgment?
11 American Dad; I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here; Jeopardy; Police Squad; Up Pompeii?
12 First class (62%); second class (41%); third class (25%); crew (24%)?
13 Abcoulomb; defence; hijack; nope; stupid?
14 Servant of God; Venerable; Blessed?
15 Altai; Buryat; Chukchi; Evenki; Kalmyk; Nenets?

The answers
1 Rosalind (As You Like It).
2 FitzRoy.
3 Poundland.
4 Vietnam.
5 Clare Balding.
6 Stinging nettle.
7 Toby Young (son of Michael Young).
8 Eland (Giant eland).
9 Named after Venetian painters: Bellini; Carpaccio; Titian.
10 Name origins of teeth: incisor; canine; molar; pre-molar; wisdom.
11 TV series with exclamation marks in their titles.
12 Approximate survival rates on the Titanic.
13 Words starting with three consecutive letters.
14 Stages before sainthood in Catholic church canonisation.
15 Russian Indigenous peoples.