FT Weekend Quiz: Jimmy Kennedy, ‘mano a mano’ and Iraq

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 Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale was first published along with The Little Mermaid in a booklet of 1837?

2. Which children’s song, with lyrics by Jimmy Kennedy, was recorded by Henry Hall and his BBC Orchestra in 1932?

3. According to the poet Juvenal, what were the only two things the Roman people hoped for from their rulers?

4. What’s the colloquial name for the brightest star in the night sky?

5. Who was the UK’s home secretary from 1997 to 2001, and foreign secretary from 2001 to 2006?

6. What’s the literal meaning of “mano a mano”?

7. Which 1973 horror film takes place on the fictional Scottish island of Summerisle?

8. Possibly according to legend, the location of which of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World was in present-day Iraq?

9. Which biblical character had a sister called Miriam and a brother called Aaron?

10. Which novel by Jeanette Winterson has eight chapters named after the first eight books of the Bible to reflect the narrator’s evangelical Christian upbringing?

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