What links Elton John and Viola Davis? The Saturday quiz

The questions

1 Player 456 won 45.6bn won on what? 2 Masahiro Mori coined what term for our unease at human-like robots? 3 A cosmic year is the time the sun takes to do what? 4 Hornsea 2 in the North Sea is the world’s largest what? 5 Which two US states give their names to chemical elements? 6 Whose Blazing World is claimed to be the first sci-fi novel by a woman? 7 The term “fifth column” originated in which conflict? 8 Mash of at least 51% corn is used to make which whiskey? What links: 9 II (Augustus); III (the Bold); IV (the Fair); V (the Tall)? 10 Tie up; sealing food in tins; smallest Yorkshire city; legal rules of society? 11 Alan Menken; Jennifer Hudson; Viola Davis; Elton John? 12 NTSC; PAL; SECAM? 13 Berlin; Berne; California; Warwickshire? 14 Crewe Alexandra; Sampdoria; Tottenham Hotspur; Vasco da Gama; Willem II? 15 Samaritan woman; Draupadi; Wife of Bath; Gail Platt?

Racking your brains over the robot clue? Photograph: fotografixx/Getty ImagesThe answers

1 Squid Game (TV series). 2 Uncanny valley. 3 Orbit the centre of the Milky Way galaxy (about 225m years). 4 Offshore windfarm. 5 California and Tennessee. 6 Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1666). 7 Spanish civil war. 8 Bourbon. 9 Bynames of French king Philips. 10 Shortest serving British PMs: Truss; Canning; (Earl of) Ripon; Law. 11 Most recent to complete (competitive) Egot award set. 12 Video format standards. 13 Flags feature bears. 14 Football clubs named after real people: Princess Alexandra; Andrea Doria; Henry Percy (Hotspur); Vasco da Gama (Rio club); Dutch king. 15 Fictional women with five husbands: John’s gospel; Mahabharata; Canterbury Tales; Coronation Street.