FT Weekend Quiz: East River, Billy Bob Thornton and San Francisco

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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.

  1. Which car insurance company was founded by Martin Long in 1989?

  2. What’s the biggest island entirely within New York’s East River?

  3. Until 1968, which official was responsible for theatrical censorship in Britain?

  4. Which 1982 biopic won eight Oscars — including one for its British director?

  5. What is the shared surname of Ray and Alan, who both played for Liverpool in their victorious 1981 European Cup final?

  6. O’Hara is the surname of the eponymous main character in which 1901 Rudyard Kipling novel?

  7. Who comes next in this sequence of husbands: Jonny Lee Miller, Billy Bob Thornton, . . .?

  8. In the Bible, from what does Moses first hear the voice of God speaking to him?

  9. The oldest and most famous gay neighbourhood in San Francisco is known as the . . . *what* — from one of its main streets?

  10. Which Renfrewshire town that gives its name to a textile pattern is the biggest town (i.e. non-city) in Scotland?

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