What links The Day of the Jackal film with a 1979 headline in the Sun? The Saturday quiz | Quiz and trivia games

The questions

1 Peter the cat is the only animal with an obituary in which almanac?

2 Four-year-old Binkie Stuart was launched as Britain’s answer to which star?

3 Established in 1798, what is London’s oldest restaurant?

4 In what decade did French women vote for the first time?

5 Which comedian co-wrote Depression and How to Survive It?

6 Which wine is flavoured with resin from the Aleppo pine?

7 “It starts with a swipe” is a slogan advertising which app?

8 Who was measured at 2.72 metres tall in 1940?

What links:

9 Alleghania; Columbia; Fredonia; Usonia?

10 Baldwin (3); Truss, Churchill and Asquith (2); May, Blair and Brown et al (1)?

11 Bland boy; narcoleptic; presbyterians; twisty flora; worst dater?

12 Cleaver; Inner and Outer Dowsing; Haisborough; Scroby; Dogger?

13 Aelfgyva; Conan; Guy; Odo; Stigand; Turold; Vital; Wadard?

14 The Day of the Jackal film; Supertramp album; 1979 headline in the Sun?

15 Beau ’n’ Arrow; Cool Hand; Ice Cold; Nuke; Snakebite?

The answers

1 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack (he lived at Lord’s).

2 Shirley Temple.

3 Rules.

4 1940s.

5 Spike Milligan (with Anthony Clare).

6 Retsina.

7 Tinder.

8 Robert Wadlow (tallest person ever).

9 Historical alternative names proposed for the US.

10 Number of monarchs prime ministers served under.

11 Anagrams of music stars: Bob Dylan; Eric Clapton; Britney Spears; Taylor Swift; Rod Stewart.

12 Sandbanks and shoals in the central/southern North Sea.

13 Nonroyal people named in Bayeux tapestry.

14 Crisis? What Crisis?: line spoken by Olga Georges-Picot in 1973 film; 1975 album title; paraphrasing Jim Callaghan.

15 Darts nicknames: Beau Greaves; Luke Humphries; Darren Beveridge; Luke Littler; Peter Wright.