FT Weekend Quiz: Publish and be damned, Accra and Stone of Scone

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 town, with a two-word name, is the ninth largest by population in County Durham?

2. Who, in 1834, was the last British prime minister to be dismissed by a monarch?

3. Who was the leader of Ukip from 2020 to 2024?

4. Between 1877 and 1957, Accra was the capital of which British colony?

5. Whose screen roles include Cassie in Euphoria, Olivia in The White Lotus and Bea in Anyone but You?

6. In 2021, the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia bought which Premier League Club?

7. To whom is the phrase “Publish and be damned” attributed?

8. Which scientist and agnostic died in Down House, Kent in 1882 and was buried in Westminster Abbey?

9. Which six-letter word can mean both mounds of stones often used as burial markers and small terriers originally from the Scottish Highlands?

10. Since March 2024, the Stone of Scone — used in the coronation of Scottish kings — has been on permanent display in which city?

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