What links toothpaste, tomato ketchup and silly putty? The Saturday quiz

1 Which high-profile US politician used to rap as Mr Cardamom?
2 What is Anguilla’s lucrative internet domain?
3 Ostalgie is the yearning for aspects of life in which former country?
4 Which church is recreated in Lego’s largest set?
5 Which siblings lived at Dove Cottage, Grasmere?
6 How did Saffie Osborne make horse racing history in September?
7 Which challenge starts near Fort William and ends on Yr Wyddfa?
8 Which TV historian was at school with Gazza?
What links:
9 Benjamin Franklin; Francis Moore; Joseph Whitaker; John Wisden?
10 Lily Snowden-Fine; Cecily Bloom; Harley Bird; Amelie Bea Smith?
11 Burgundy; Aviz; Habsburg; Braganza?
12 First of Shawwal and tenth of Dhul-Hijjah?
13 Tiny people; giant people; impractical intellectuals; talking horses; savage humans?
14 Ketchup; blood; paint; quicksand; silly putty; toothpaste?
15 Ferris Bueller’s Day Off; Home Alone; The Fugitive; The Untouchables?

The answers

1 Zohran Mamdani (NYC mayor).
2 .ai.
3 East Germany.
4 Sagrada Família (12,060 pieces).
5 William and Dorothy Wordsworth.
6 First female jockey to win a British classic (St Leger).
7 National Three Peaks.
8 David Olusoga.
9 Founders of almanacs.
10 First four voices of Peppa Pig.
11 Ruling dynasties of Portugal (12th century to 1910).
12 Dates of major Muslim festivals: Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha.
13 Encountered by Gulliver in Gulliver’s Travels.
14 Non-Newtonian fluids.
15 Films set in Chicago.