FT Weekend Quiz: As Nasty as They Wanna Be, Manhattan and Arsenal

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 was the last Vietnam war film to win a Best Picture Oscar?

2. Which hip-hop act’s 1989 album As Nasty as They Wanna Be was the first ever to be declared legally obscene?

3. Which Christian youth organisation was founded at the Free Church Mission Hall in Glasgow in 1883?

4. What was founded in 1961 by Peter Hall?

5. In 1558, the Scottish protestant leader John Knox published The First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous . . . what?

6. What park lies on the southern tip of Manhattan?

7. In ballet, what phrase is used for dancers who aren’t principal dancers or soloists?

8. What was discovered in 1974, after more than 2,200 years, by local farmers in Lintong County, China?

9. Liverpool, Arsenal and Leeds United were the last three champions of what?

10. In computers, what does CPU stand for?

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