FT Weekend Quiz: William Burroughs’ novel, Katharine Graham and Lenox Avenue

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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 chocolate bar was launched in the UK in 1996, featured in the first Cadbury Heroes selection in 1999 and was discontinued in 2006?

2. In 1996, what became the first animated film to be nominated for a Best Original Screenplay Oscar?

3. In a landmark case in 1966, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that which novel by William Burroughs was not obscene?

4. Between 1963 and 1991, Katharine Graham was the publisher of which American newspaper?

5. What’s the site of the annual Trooping of the Colour ceremony in London?

6. The New York Rangers, the Los Angeles Kings and the Toronto Maple Leafs are professional teams in which sport?

7. Which one-word song title provided different UK hits for John Miles in 1976 and Madonna in 2000?

8. In 1987, Lenox Avenue in Harlem was co-named after which civil rights activist, assassinated in 1965?

9. Which tax, introduced in England and Wales in 1696 and Scotland in 1758, was repealed in 1851?

10. Since it began in 1964, which BBC programme has had only five main presenters, whose initials in order are KW, DC, JH, DL and GL?

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