FT Weekend Quiz: US Treasury, Bianca Jagger and Barbie Girl

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 county town of Britain’s second biggest county?

2. What’s the main railway station in the city that’s home to Britain’s biggest cathedral?

3. Which bureau of the US Treasury has six facilities across the country, including Fort Knox?

4. Which northern concert venue — since renamed The Glasshouse — was officially opened by the Queen on October 14 2005?

5. Who played parish councillor Jim Trott in The Vicar of Dibley?

6. What’s the name of Mick and Bianca Jagger’s only child?

7. Warren is the surname of which ghostly Harry Potter character, killed by a basilisk?

8. Which model was born on January 16 1974 in Croydon?

9. In The Wizard of Oz, what’s the capital of the Land of Oz?

10. Which band’s first UK number one single was 1997’s “Barbie Girl”?

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