FT Weekend Quiz: Sydney Morning Herald, Rowntree and Laurence Olivier Award

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’s the most populous British Crown Dependency?

2. Which Melbourne newspaper is the sister paper of the Sydney Morning Herald?

3. *An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925* is the subtitle of which 1933 memoir by Vera Brittain?

4. What’s the only single by The Jam with a one-word title?

5. What’s the only EU capital city that isn’t its country’s seat of government?

6. What word appears in the name of three African countries?

7. The confectionery company Rowntree was founded in which city?

8. Which kind of brothers feature in the title of the winner of the 1983 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical?

9. Which 2020 TV drama serial — a global hit during lockdown — features two main characters from the fictional town of Carricklea in County Sligo?

10. What lasts 88 Earth days on Mercury and 60,190 Earth days on Neptune?

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