FT Weekend Quiz: Deep Thought computer, Defenestration of Prague and Bianca Jagger

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. The first season of which HBO show won the 2002 Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series — Drama?

2. Which film won the 2014 Academy Award for Best Picture?

3. In May, the minimum age for train drivers in Britain was reduced to what?

4. Which car race, which still takes place annually in the same venue, was first held in 1923?

5. Which war is traditionally said to have been triggered by the Defenestration of Prague in 1618?

6. The death of Anne Boleyn and the Berlin Olympics both took place in years ending with which two digits?

7. What was the answer of the Deep Thought computer to “life, the universe and everything”?

8. How many stars were on the American flag in the second world war?

9. In 1977, Bianca Jagger was photographed riding a white horse in which New York nightclub?

10. In 1904 Archie Hahn was the last winner of which Olympic athletics event — discontinued ever since — in a time of seven seconds?

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