Who is Jon Arbuckle’s lasagne-loving cat? The Weekend quiz

The questions

1 Which poet was killed at the 1586 Battle of Zutphen?
2 Who is presented with the Coupe Omnisports?
3 What natural feature is Severn-Break- its-Neck?
4 Which record label was “the sound of young America”?
5 Re: Joyce! was whose show about which entertainer?
6 Who is Jon Arbuckle’s lasagne-loving cat?
7 The Karakum Desert makes up most of what country?
8 Who is the Green party’s first and only MP?
What links:
9 Concussion; The Blind Side; Ballers; Friday Night Lights; Any Given Sunday?
10 Belgae; Aquitani; Celts?
11 Giotto; Stardust; Deep Impact; Rosetta (Philae)?
12 Joel Grey and Jill Haworth; Barry Dennen and Judi Dench; Joel Grey and Liza Minnelli?
13 Yellow; Missouri; Paraná; Danube; Congo?
14 Skull and crossbones; exploding bomb; flame; dead tree and fish?
15 Nicolas Poussin; Antonio Vivaldi; Karl Ove Knausgaard; Ali Smith?

The answers

1 Sir Philip Sidney.
2 Winner of the Tour de France.
3 Waterfall (in Wales).
4 Motown.
5 Maureen Lipman on Joyce Grenfell.
6 Garfield (comic strip).
7 Turkmenistan.
8 Caroline Lucas (Brighton Pavilion).
9 American football-themed film and TV series.
10 Peoples of ancient Gaul (according to Julius Caesar).
11 Spacecraft sent to study comets.
12 Emcee and Sally Bowles in Cabaret: original Broadway; original London; film.
13 Second longest rivers: Asia; North America; South America; Europe; Africa.
14 Chemical hazard symbols: acute toxicity; explosive; flammable; hazardous to the environment.
15 Works based on the four seasons.