The questions

1 What began to tilt in 1178?
2 Which deep-sea fish attracts prey with a glowing lure called an esca?
3 Habitat 67 is a Brutalist housing development in which North American city?
4 Which founder member of the Football League no longer exists?
5 What was Barbara Castle’s 1969 plan to improve industrial relations?
6 Vasco Núñez de Balboa was the first European to see what?
7 Which artistic group were originally called the “Intransigents”?
8 Which 1963 fantasy film did Tom Hanks declare the “greatest movie ever made”?
What links:
9 Simple Comforts; Cookery Bible; How to Be a Domestic Goddess?
10 I’m a Believer; I Wanna Be Yours; Feel Good Inc?
11 Champagne (Chekhov); Mozart (Mahler); veal pie (Pitt the Younger); whisky (Dylan Thomas)?
12 Altes; Bode; Neues; Pergamon?
13 Estonian; Finnish; Hungarian; Sámi?
14 Dupplin Moor; Halidon Hill; Culblean; Neville’s Cross?
15 Aird; Dickinson & Sawyer; Edgar; Hunt; Mundson; Poulain?

Barbara Castle in 1974. Photograph: Keystone/Getty Images

The answers

1 Leaning Tower of Pisa.
2 Anglerfish.
3 Montreal.
4 Accrington FC.
5 In Place of Strife (white paper).
6 Pacific Ocean (1513).
7 Impressionists.
8 Jason and the Argonauts.
9 Books by successive Bake Off judges: Mary Berry; Prue Leith; Nigella Lawson.
10 Most-streamed songs by “primate” bands: The Monkees; Arctic Monkeys; Gorillaz.
11 Subjects of their last words, reportedly.
12 Museums on Berlin’s Museum Island.
13 Uralic languages.
14 Battles in the Second War of Scottish Independence (14th century)
15 Surnames of title characters in films: Carol; Thelma & Louise; Marnie; Laura; Gilda; Amélie.