FT Weekend Quiz: Victoria Cross, ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ and Tony Blair
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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.
In Los Angeles, what occupies 15 blocks of Hollywood Boulevard and three blocks of Vine Street?
11 British soldiers were awarded the Victoria Cross for their actions in which battle of 22-23 January 1879?
Which now weekly global event was founded in London by Paul Sinton-Hewitt in 2004?
Which now ubiquitous piece of music was originally written as an intermezzo between Acts Four and Five for an 1843 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream?
The first record ever played on Radio One was by which band?
Whose record did Gareth Bale beat to become Wales’s highest goal-scorer?
What’s the surname of Roy of the Rovers?
What cost £8 when it was introduced in London in 2003, and is now £15?
Barbara Luddy and Larry Roberts provided the voces for the two eponymous canine characters in which 1955 animated Disney film?
What’s the title of Tony Blair’s bestselling memoir of 2010?
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James Walton is co-host of “The Booker Prize Podcast”
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