FT Weekend Quiz: Firth of Clyde, Cadbury Heroes and Sophie Ellis-Bextor

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 was then, and still is now, the biggest city in the first US state to secede from the Union in 1860?

2. What’s the seventh book of the Bible?

3. Which island in the Firth of Clyde has been uninhabited since 1990, when its lighthouse was automated?

4. Two Yorkshire-based shows written by Sally Wainwright have won the Bafta for Best Drama Series: Happy Valley in 2015 and 2017 — and which other in 2013?

5. Since April 2023, who has hosted the mid-morning show on Greatest Hits Radio?

6. Which eponymous character in a novel by Thomas Hardy works as a milkmaid at Talbothays Dairy?

7. In a current box of Cadbury Heroes, the three items that are purely chocolate are Dairy Milk, Wispa — and what?

8. Which British boxer retired in 1996 following his second defeat by Mike Tyson?

9. Which 2001 single by Sophie Ellis-Bextor reached number two in the charts for the second time in 2024 following its use in the film Saltburn?

10. Which stairway in Rome was designed by Francesco de Sanctis and Alessandro Specchi?

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