The Saturday quiz

Simon O'Hagan
Saturday 21 August 2010 00:00 BST
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1. The first-person narrator is Nick Carraway. The title character is someone else. Which 1925 novel?

2. Which major French institution was founded by, and named after, a 13th-century Confessor to King Louis IX?

3. To which government role was Duff Cooper (below) appointed when Winston Churchill became Prime Minister in 1940?

4. What happened on the Deepwater Horizon on 20 April this year?

5. Who was arrested at the Cadogan Hotel on 6 April 1895?

6. Julian Assange founded what?

7. Which political slogan was coined by Stokely Carmichael in a speech made during a march in June 1966?

8. Which sports ground features a weathervane of Father Time?

9. Matthew Weiner is the creator of which TV series?

10. How many stars are there on the EU flag?

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