FT Weekend Quiz: Jørn Utzon, Led Zeppelin and Ivy League

All the answers here are linked in some way. Once you’ve spotted the connection, any you didn’t know the first time around should become easier.

1. What two-word term for what’s now Anatolia in Turkey was coined by the historian Orosius in 400AD?

2. Which building was designed by Jørn Utzon, opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1973 and designated a Unesco world heritage site in 2007?

3. What was the last studio album by Led Zeppelin?

4. Which individual sledding event was reintroduced to the Winter Olympics in 2002 after 54 years, and has remained one ever since?

5. Which prime minister abolished Mrs Thatcher’s poll tax?

6. John Redmond, a supermarket assistant manager, and Kayleigh Kitson, a promotions rep, were the two main characters in which hit British sitcom of the 2010s?

7. What’s the only Ivy League university in Connecticut?

8. Which political and military slogan originated in France during the 1916 Battle of Verdun?

9. On a music score “p”, meaning quiet, stands for which word?

10. In America, what two-word term is used for a car with a manual, rather than automatic, gear system?

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James Walton is co-host of “The Booker Prize Podcast”