FT Weekend Quiz: Isle of Wight, Egypt and ‘Fog on the Tyne’

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. Which doubly misnamed foodstuff is the tuber of an American sunflower?

2. What’s the main river in the Isle of Wight?

3. Which Japanese company was at the centre of a financial scandal in 2011 — exposed by its British CEO Michael Woodford?

4. What’s the only part of Egypt that’s in Asia?

5. Which javelin-thrower was the BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 1987?

6. What’s the name of Madonna’s oldest daughter?

7. On his 1990 hit single “Fog on the Tyne”, Paul Gascoigne was accompanied by which band — who’d originally recorded the song?

8. Which treaty of 1957 established the EEC — the forerunner of the EU?

9. Who was Elizabeth I’s spymaster?

10. At the end of Yeats’s poem “The Second Coming”, a “rough beast . . . slouches towards” where?

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