FT Weekend Quiz: Captain Tom Moore, Lord Mountbatten and Madonna

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 bestselling car of all time in the UK?

2. Who accompanied Captain Tom Moore on the 2020 version of “You’ll Never Walk Alone” — the fastest selling single of that year?

3. Who played both Tywin Lannister in Game of Thrones and Lord Mountbatten in The Crown?

4. What’s the name of Australia’s main Twenty20 cricket competition?

5. Which Bible story — the source of the phrase “the writing’s on the wall” — is the subject of a Rembrandt painting in the National Gallery?

6. In which 2002 film did Danny Cunningham and Chris Coghill play Shaun Ryder and Bez from the Happy Mondays?

7. Which of his works did Camille Saint-Saëns insist should be published posthumously, on the grounds that it wasn’t as serious as his other compositions?

8. What’s the name of Madonna’s current world tour?

9. Which sweets have coffee, orange and raisin chocolates, Galaxy counters and Maltesers in the same bag?

10. Which British publication became the world’s longest-running weekly comic of all time in 2018?

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