What links snooker players, race walkers and flamingos? The Saturday quiz

Questions

1 What “died on the Oval on 29 August 1882”?
2 What defines a Bizarre society?
3 Which TV present took its title from a Whiskas advert?
4 Which surprise of the traditional world might not have existed?
5 On what does Nikkie de Jager provide on-line recommendation?
6 Which medieval dynasty was named after the broom plant?
7 Which political doc bought for $43m final yr?
8 What was historically saved in a fiasco?
What hyperlinks:
9 Indian cobra; crimson fox; widespread buzzard; Eurasian lynx?
10 Cheviot; Donegal; Harris; Saxony; Yorkshire?
11 James Webb; Cheops; Hubble; Astrosat?
12 Dapple; Modestine; Benjamin; Puzzle?
13 Snooker gamers; race walkers; flamingos?
14 Îles Sorlingues; Îles Anglo-Normandes; Orcades?
15 Woolworth; Singer; Metropolitan Life; Chrysler?

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Solutions

1 English cricket (mock Ashes obituary).
2 Western, Educated, Industrialised, Wealthy and Democratic.
3 8 Out of 10 Cats.
4 Hanging gardens of Babylon.
5 Make-up/magnificence (NikkieTutorials on YouTube).
6 Plantagenet (from Latin identify planta genista).
7 US structure (unique copy).
8 Chianti wine.

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9 Zoological triple tautonyms: naja naja naja; vulpes vulpes vulpes; buteo buteo buteo; lynx lynx lynx.
10 Sorts of tweed.
11 House telescopes.
12 Literary donkeys: Don Quixote; Travels With a Donkey within the Cévennes; Animal Farm; Chronicles of Narnia.
13 One foot on the bottom (within the guidelines, within the case of snooker and race strolling).
14 French names for British archipelagos: Isles of Scilly; Channel Islands; Orkney.
15 Early-Twentieth-century New York skyscrapers.