FT Weekend Quiz: ‘The Divine Comedy’, Bow Street Runners and J D Salinger

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. At Lord’s cricket ground, which stand is between the Tavern and Edrich stands?

2. In 1993, who became the first Swedish band since Abba to have a number one single in the UK?

3. In Dante’s The Divine Comedy who does Virgil call “poet sovereign” or “king of all poets”?

4. The Seagram Building, the Waldorf Astoria Hotel and Grand Central Station are all on which New York avenue?

5. Which 18th century novelist founded the Bow Street Runners, usually regarded as London’s first professional police force?

6. Fought in the South Atlantic in December 1939, what was the first naval battle of the second world war?

7. In 2012, who became the first Mormon to be the presidential nominee of a major US political party?

8. What has been celebrated in Britain in 1897, 2012 – and no other years?

9. What’s the only published novel by J D Salinger?

10. The French name for which mammal translates literally as “bald mouse”?

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