What links The Day of the Jackal film with a 1979 headline in the Sun? 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?

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.