FT Weekend Quiz: TS Eliot, Sarah Jessica Parker and Spider-Man

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. Euclid’s theorem states that there is an infinity of what?

2. TS Eliot’s “The Waste Land” is dedicated to which other poet, who helped with its composition?

3. In 2003 which member of the House of Lords became the first woman of colour to serve in the British cabinet?

4. The models made by which UK bike manufacturer include the Equilibrium, the Longitude and the Croix de Fer?

5. Of which early Shakespeare play did Dr Johnson write: “The barbarity of the spectacles, and the general massacre which are here exhibited, can scarcely be conceived tolerable to any audience”?

6. Which actor is married to Sarah Jessica Parker?

7. Which British boxer became the unified heavyweight world champion in 2017?

8. In con artists’ slang, what’s the word for the intended victim?

9. Which studio album by Bob Marley and the Wailers includes the hit singles “Three Little Birds”, “One Love”, “Jamming”, “Waiting in Vain” — and the title track?

10. In the Spider-Man comic books, who’s the villainous owner and editor of the Daily Bugle?

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