FT Weekend Quiz: D-Day beaches, Whigfield and Richard E Grant

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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. What’s the second longest river in China?

  2. Which of the D-Day beaches comes first alphabetically?

  3. Culture Yard in Kingston, Jamaica is home to a museum celebrating the history and culture of which neighbourhood within the city?

  4. “Adoration of the Earth” and “The Sacrifice” are the two parts of which ballet, first performed in Paris in 1913?

  5. Which early 1990s single was the only UK number one by Whigfield?

  6. Which festival, held annually in Powys, was founded in 1988 by Peter Florence and his parents Rhoda and Norman?

  7. Which anti-slavery novel of 1852 is subtitled Life among the Lowly?

  8. What now familiar two-word phrase was first used in the Evening Standard to summarise the Royal Society’s 1963 report The Emigration of Scientists from the United Kingdom?

  9. Which TV series of the late 1990s starred Richard E Grant as the 18th-century British aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney, whose famous alter ego is the title of the show?

  10. In 1984, which Australian became the first wicketkeeper to reach 350 Test dismissals?

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