FT Weekend Quiz: Gospel of Matthew, Marianne Sheridan and Graham Greene

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 was U2’s first UK number one single of the 1990s?

2. According to the Gospel of Matthew, what did the chief priests buy with Judas’s 30 pieces of silver to bury strangers in?

3. Which British philosopher, born in 1806, had read all of Herodotus in Greek by the age of eight?

4. In the 1920s, Paris’s Musée de l’Orangerie built two special rooms to house eight paintings of what?

5. Sevastopol was founded on the orders of which Russian ruler in 1783?

6. Who played Marianne Sheridan in a TV drama of 2020?

7. In humans, the ear is the organ of hearing — and what other function?

8. Which 1986 film stars Matthew Broderick as a high school truant?

9. According to his autobiography, as a teenager Graham Greene played which potentially lethal game of chance?

10. In 2019, Amanda Holden and Andy Murray were the last two winners of which award — now, perhaps understandably, discontinued?

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