FT Weekend Quiz: Charles Darwin, Brontë sisters and an Irish singer

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. Who’s the biggest selling Irish solo singer of all time?

2. What did Charles Darwin call “the most splendid of living birds”?

3. In the open era (beginning in 1968), which player, born 1980, is the only one to have won exactly five ladies’ singles championships at Wimbledon?

4. What’s the smallest country in Central America?

5. Which of the three Brontë sisters died first?

6. Who was made an OBE in 1991 for services to broadcasting — and a Dame in 2015 for services to children and older people?

7. Which American state comes last alphabetically?

8. A statue of which British nurse, executed by the Germans in 1915, stands opposite the National Portrait Gallery?

9. Which 2003 film about a racehorse was nominated for seven Oscars but won none?

10. Which cathedral city is the county town of Devon?

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