FT Weekend Quiz: ‘Much Ado About Nothing’, Artful Dodger and Star Wars

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 crime writer sat in the House of Lords as Baroness of Holland Park?

2. Which moon of Uranus is named after a character in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing?

3. Who was the English king at the turn of the 13th century?

4. What’s the more common name for the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre?

5. Written by Russell T Davies and starring Helena Bonham Carter, Nolly was a 2023 TV drama about which real-life actress?

6. Artful Dodger’s 1999 single “Re-Rewind (The Crowd Say Bo Selecta)” featured which then unknown singer on vocals?

7. Who was the only female ruler in the 650 years of the Habsburg dynasty?

8. In 1985, aged 17, who became the youngest ever Wimbledon men’s singles champion — a record he still holds?

9. Which first name is shared by the American singer Phair, the Scottish poet Lochhead and the English radio presenter Kershaw?

10. In the Star Wars universe, the moon of which planet was used by the Republic to monitor the cloning facility on Kamino?

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