FT Weekend Quiz: 1802 treaty, Hugh Grosvenor and a rifle company

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 perfume was first mixed by Johann Maria Farina in 1709?

2. Who was the British prime minister when Queen Victoria died?

3. Which treaty of 1802 ended the French Revolutionary wars?

4. Which company made the rifle known as “the gun that won the West”?

5. Hugh Grosvenor is the current holder of which ducal title?

6. Which English county cricket club does Ben Stokes play for?

7. Which arts complex is home to the New York Philharmonic orchestra, the Metropolitan Opera and the New York City Ballet?

8. On a traditional London Monopoly board, which of the yellow properties comes first alphabetically?

9. In Charlotte Brontë’s novel, who does Jane Eyre marry?

10. In which 1939 film does Charles Laughton play a character in love with a dancer called Esmeralda?

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