FT Weekend Quiz: Chuck Berry, Ginger Rogers and trichophobia

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. In 1963, following his assassination attempt on President Charles de Gaulle, Jean Bastien-Thiry became the last person in France to be executed by which method?

2. In 1963, which band’s first two singles were written by Chuck Berry and Lennon-McCartney respectively?

3. Which film musical, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, featured the song “Cheek to Cheek”?

4. Which national UK workplace regulator has its headquarters in Bootle, Merseyside?

5. Which coastal city is the second biggest in Croatia after Zagreb?

6. Which bestselling author was born in 1947 in Maine — where many of his novels are set?

7. In men’s Test cricket, what result has happened on December 14 1960 and September 22 1986 — and on no other occasion?

8. Trichophobia is the fear of what?

9. In 1981, which imprisoned IRA hunger striker was elected MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone?

10. Which part of the house gave its name to genre of theatrical comedy popular from the late 19th century onwards?

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