FT Weekend Quiz: Penguin books, Val Kilmer and James Bond theme songs

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. Sydney Jacobson was the first editor of which British daily newspaper?

2. Who founded Penguin books in 1935?

3. According to Guinness World Records, who’s the biggest selling female recording artist of all time?

4. What’s the only Batman film in which Val Kilmer played Batman?

5. Who was the only Real Madrid player in the England men’s football squad for the 2024 Euros?

6. Which unit of measurement was standardised to four inches by a statute of Henry VIII?

7. In 2019, who became the first woman to be the political editor of Sky News, a position she still holds?

8. In Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass, what word is missing from this extract from a poem: “The time has come,” the ______ said,/ “To talk of many things”?

9. Shirley Bassey has sung the theme song for three James Bond films: Goldfinger, Moonraker — and which other?

10. HMS Dreadnought, launched on Trafalgar Day 1960, was Britain’s first what?

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