FT Weekend Quiz: Apple iPod, Cantharidin and ‘Abbey Road’

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. According to Rolling Stone magazine, which jazz record label founded in New York in 1939 – has since “taken on an almost sacred quality among musicians and fans”?

2. What was the last Apple iPod product?

3. Which newspaper, bought by Rupert Murdoch in 2007, has the biggest print circulation of any in America?

4. What’s the only state of matter with a fixed volume but no fixed shape?

5. Cantharidin is the scientific name for which traditional aphrodisiac, named after the insect which secretes it?

6. “The Burial of the Dead” is the first of the five parts of which poem by T S Eliot?

7. Which lyricist’s three Oscars for Best Original Song are for “You Must Love Me”, “A Whole New World” and “Can You Feel the Love Tonight”?

8. Organic chemistry is the study of compounds containing which element?

9. What’s the surname of the Game of Thrones characters Nymeria, Obara, Tyene and Ellaria?

10. What object did several American poster companies airbrush from the cover of the Beatles’ Abbey Road album in 2003?

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