FT Weekend Quiz: Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, Hydro razors and Elizabeth Gurney

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 element of Arthurian legend was first described in 1155 by the poet Wace?

2. Which carol follows the ninth lesson in King’s College Cambridge’s annual Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols?

3. “Immortal Memory” and “Toast to the Lassies” are features of which annual event?

4. Which company makes Hydro razors?

5. Which actor played the EastEnders character whose brother was played by Steve McFadden?

6. Who was the first black winner of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award?

7. Which song by Hozier was the first Irish song to be streamed a billion times on Spotify?

8. What two-word name is commonly given to George W Bush’s speech on the USS Abraham Lincoln on 1 May 2003?

9. Who’s the crown prince and prime minister of Saudi Arabia?

10. What was the married name of the social reformer Elizabeth Gurney, whose husband was from a chocolate-manufacturing Quaker family

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