FT Weekend Quiz: Michael Flatley, Way Out West and Woodhouse

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 area in the UK shipping forecast borders Africa?

2. What’s the longest river that flows into the Mediterranean?

3. What was the first show created by Michael Flatley after he left Riverdance?

4. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, which pejorative phrase for a slot machine first appeared in print in the New York Times in 1936?

5. Which phrase for people working from within to destroy a society or country at war is generally attributed to the Spanish civil war general Emilio Mola?

6. Which double act had a posthumous British hit in 1975 with “On the Trail of the Lonesome Pine” from the 1937 film Way Out West?

7. Woodhouse is the surname of which eponymous heroine in a novel of 1816?

8. What name is shared by the fourth-biggest city in New Zealand and the capital of Bermuda?

9. What word comes next in this line from Shakespeare’s Hamlet: “Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him . . . ”?

10. The cast of which film includes Sylvester Stallone, Michael Caine and several Ipswich Town footballers?

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