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Thomas Eaton

What links Blade Runner (35) and Gladiator (24)? The Saturday quiz

Harrison Ford in a still from Blade Runner, hanging from a ledge on a tall building as traffic passes below in the street
Bemused by the Blade Runner clue? Photograph: Warner Bros./Allstar

The questions

1 Who predicted he’d be remembered for “thumping a fellow in Wales”?
2 What is the world’s most widely grown non-food crop?
3 Park and Street are the disciplines of which Olympic sport?
4 Pardoned in November, what are Peach and Blossom?
5 In India, what names are given to 100,000 and 10 million?
6 Which UK gull is named for its shrill cry?
7 Which artist brought his pet anteater on to a US talkshow in 1971?
8 In a limited company or partnership, what is limited?
What links:
9
Intermezzo; The Defense; The Lüneburg Variation; The Queen’s Gambit?
10 Brain rot; brat; enshittification; manifest?
11 Irving Berlin; Jimmy Carter; Bob Hope; Queen Mother; Leni Riefenstahl?
12 EX; EW; CR; EN; VU; NT; LC; DD; NE?
13 Babyface; Golf Bag; Legs; Machine Gun; Pretty Boy?
14 East Timor; Pendle Hill; River Avon; Sahara and Gobi deserts?
15 Top Gun and Beetlejuice (36); Blade Runner (35); Gladiator (24)?

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