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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Thomas Eaton

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

A flock of flamingos wading in a lagoon
Birds of a feather. Photograph: Prisma by Dukas/Universal Images Group/Getty Images

Questions

1 What “died at the Oval on 29 August 1882”?
2 What defines a Weird society?
3 Which TV show took its title from a Whiskas advert?
4 Which wonder of the ancient world may not have existed?
5 On what does Nikkie de Jager offer online advice?
6 Which medieval dynasty was named after the broom plant?
7 Which political document sold for $43m last year?
8 What was traditionally stored in a fiasco?
What links:
9
Indian cobra; red fox; common buzzard; Eurasian lynx?
10 Cheviot; Donegal; Harris; Saxony; Yorkshire?
11 James Webb; Cheops; Hubble; Astrosat?
12 Dapple; Modestine; Benjamin; Puzzle?
13 Snooker players; race walkers; flamingos?
14 Îles Sorlingues; Îles Anglo-Normandes; Orcades?
15 Woolworth; Singer; Metropolitan Life; Chrysler?

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