FT Weekend Quiz: Museum of Modern Art, Andrew Carnegie and Brangelina

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. Who was the first prime minister of Canada?

2. What is the longest river entirely within New South Wales?

3. In 1996, the Museum of Modern Art in New York paid a reported $15m for a full set of which 32 pop art paintings?

4. Andrew Carnegie became one of America’s richest men thanks to which industry?

5. In 1991, Cliff Barnes became the owner of which fictional oil company?

6. Caviar is traditionally made from the roe of which fish?

7. White Label is the biggest selling blend of whisky made by which company?

8. What is the most common eye colour in the world?

9. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie fell in love while co-starring in which film (according to their divorce proceedings)?

10. Between 1995 and 2002, who was the third host of BBC1’s The Generation Game, following Bruce Forsyth and Larry Grayson?

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