Off Topic And Now for Something Completely Different

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Bit of a quiz

The questions

1 Which country is named after the creator god Ptah?
2 What did music writer David Hepworth call “the Somme with Santana”?
3 Which wildlife census attracts more than half a million participants each January?
4 What is the largest blood vessel in the body?
5 China’s Hou Yifan is the women’s world no 1 in what game?
6 Which fabric’s name comes from the Persian for “milk and sugar”?
7 Which philosopher designed the Panopticon prison?
8 Who was infamously acquitted of an 1892 axe murder in Massachusetts?
What links:
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Yates, white; Cavendish, green; Millar (now York), polka dot; Wiggins, yellow?
10 Curthose; Rufus; Beauclerc?
11 Gentlemen only, ladies forbidden; New York, London; port out, starboard home?
12 Taurus-Littrow (17); Descartes Highlands (16); Hadley-Apennine (15); Fra Mauro (14)?
13 Jonathan Anderson; Matthieu Blazy; Sarah Burton; Demna; Alessandro Michele?
14 Georgie Fame; Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot; Beyoncé and Jay-Z?
15 Mississippi v Loire; East, Harlem and Hudson v Foss and Ouse?
 
I clearly suck at these quizzes. Slung them into Gemini after having a go.

I got 4, 8 and 11 correct but should really have got 9 if I wasn't so stupid.
 
India v West Indies cricket.... the match was great, but I just love the enthusiasm and joy of their supporters, more especially the kittle kids with their families....