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

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)?

Queen’s Gambit clue proving impenetrable? Moses Ingram and Anya Taylor-Joy in the Netflix series. Photograph: Netflix/AP

The answers

1 John Prescott.
2 Cotton.
3 Skateboarding.
4 White House Thanksgiving turkeys.
5 Lakh and crore.
6 Kittiwake.
7 Salvador Dalí.
8 Liability.
9 Chess-themed novels: Sally Rooney; Vladimir Nabokov; Paolo Maurensig; Walter Tevis.
10 Words of the year for 2024: Oxford; Collins; Macquarie; Cambridge.
11 Reached 100 years old.
12 IUCN red list animal categories: Extinct; Extinct in the Wild; Critically Endangered; Endangered; Vulnerable; Near Threatened; Least Concern; Data Deficient; Not Evaluated.
13 Old US gangster nicknames: George Nelson; Sam Hunt; Jack Diamond; George Kelly Barnes; Charles Floyd.
14 Tautological placenames.
15 Films and years later that sequels were released.