From four-year-old Binkie Stuart to Peter the cat, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz
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?
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