Trivia Questions

Test your knowledge with the following questions from our Saturday quiz.

Who is the only animal with an obituary in the Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack?
Four-year-old Binkie Stuart was launched as Britain’s answer to which star?
Established in 1798, what is London’s oldest restaurant?
In what decade did French women vote for the first time?
Which comedian co-wrote Depression and How to Survive It?
Which wine is flavoured with resin from the Aleppo pine?
“It starts with a swipe” is a slogan advertising which app?
Who was measured at 2.72 metres tall in 1940?
What links Alleghania, Columbia, Fredonia, and Usonia?
What links Baldwin (3), Truss, Churchill and Asquith (2), and May, Blair and Brown et al (1)?
Which music stars are anagrams of Bland boy, narcoleptic, presbyterians, twisty flora, and worst dater?
What are Cleaver, Inner and Outer Dowsing, Haisborough, Scroby, and Dogger?
Who are the nonroyal people named in the Bayeux tapestry?
What links The Day of the Jackal film, a Supertramp album, and a 1979 headline in the Sun?
Which darts nicknames are Beau ‘n’ Arrow, Cool Hand, Ice Cold, Nuke, and Snakebite?

The Answers

Here are the answers to the questions above.

1. Peter the cat is the only animal with an obituary in the Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack. He lived at Lord’s.
2. Binkie Stuart was launched as Britain’s answer to Shirley Temple.
3. Rules is London’s oldest restaurant, established in 1798.
4. French women voted for the first time in the 1940s.
5. Spike Milligan co-wrote Depression and How to Survive It with Anthony Clare.
6. Retsina is flavoured with resin from the Aleppo pine.
7. Tinder uses the slogan “It starts with a swipe”.
8. Robert Wadlow was measured at 2.72 metres tall in 1940. He is the tallest person ever recorded.
9. Alleghania, Columbia, Fredonia, and Usonia are historical alternative names proposed for the US.
10. The numbers represent the number of monarchs prime ministers served under.
11. The anagrams are Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Britney Spears, Taylor Swift, and Rod Stewart.
12. Cleaver, Inner and Outer Dowsing, Haisborough, Scroby, and Dogger are sandbanks and shoals in the central and southern North Sea.
13. Aelfgyva, Conan, Guy, Odo, Stigand, Turold, Vital, and Wadard are nonroyal people named in the Bayeux tapestry.
14. The link is the phrase “Crisis What Crisis”. It was a line spoken by Olga Georges-Picot in the 1973 film The Day of the Jackal, the title of a 1975 Supertramp album, and a paraphrase of Jim Callaghan in a 1979 headline in the Sun.
15. The darts nicknames are Beau Greaves, Luke Humphries, Darren Beveridge, Luke Littler, and Peter Wright.