FT Weekend Quiz: Queen of Carthage, ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ and Sacré-Coeur

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 day job of ARP Warden Hodges in Dad’s Army?

2. Which online financial technology company was wholly owned by eBay between 2002 and 2015?

3. Which stately home is located approximately four miles from the town of Warminster in Wiltshire?

4. In Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, what’s the name of the fictitious friend invented by Algernon to get him out of unwanted social appointments?

5. What’s the only city in West Sussex?

6. Andy Dufresne and Ellis Redding were inmates of which fictional prison?

7. According to legend, who was the founder and first Queen of Carthage?

8. What did Igor Stravinsky compose “for a New Theatre” and Aaron Copland “for the Common Man”?

9. What kind of animal is Beatrix Potter’s Mrs Tiggy-Winkle?

10. The cathedral of Sacré-Coeur stands on top of which Parisian hill?

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