FT Weekend Quiz: The Bangles, Mendelssohn and New Orleans

All the answers here are linked in some way. Once you’ve spotted the link, any you didn’t know the first time around should become easier.

1. Which annual festival was celebrated in 2020 on January 25, and will be celebrated in 2021 on February 12?

2. By what name is Mendelssohn’s fourth symphony known?

3. The ex-convict Shadow Moon is the main character in which novel by Neil Gaiman?

4. Which landmark feature of Rome is overlooked by the Santissima Trinità dei Monti church?

5. Which film of 2002, which went on to become the highest ever grossing romcom up to that point, was written by and starred Nia Vardalos?

6. Which song by the Bangles was included in the BBC’s “list of records to be avoided” during the first Gulf war?

7. 

   Bourbon Street (above) is a historic thoroughfare in which area of New Orleans?

8. Which reference work, begun in 1857, was finally published in full in 1928?

9. 

   What’s the name of the Vatican soldiers (above) who protect the Pope?

10. What did Cricket Australia ban crowds from doing in 2007 (with limited success)?

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