FT Weekend Quiz: Sarah Waters, Eduardo Saverin and Othello

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 town in Derbyshire lies on the confluence of the rivers Rother and Hipper?

2. Which English men’s football team has won the most League Cups?

3. Which novel by Sarah Waters was shortlisted for the 2002 Booker Prize?

4. Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz, Andrew McCollom and Chris Hughes were four of the five co-founders of what?

5. Which adjective meaning “ascetic” contains all the vowels in the right order?

6. What’s the second most populous country in the world?

7. Which animal’s name is derived from the Ancient Greek for “river horse”?

8. What is the traditional — and still most common — religion in Japan?

9. In Shakespeare’s Othello, what possession of Desdemona’s does Iago plant in Cassio’s room to incriminate her?

10. Romanian sisters Gabriela and Monica Irimia achieved pop success under the name: The . . . what?

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