FT Weekend Quiz: viper deaths, e=mc2 and British public schools

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. Which viper is apparently responsible for more human deaths in Africa than any other snake?

2. What was the fourth, final and highest-charting single from Oasis’s debut album Definitely Maybe?

3. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, what two-word phrase for a sailor was first used in 1781?

4. In the equation e=mc2, what is c?

5. Who played Deborah in the sitcom Men Behaving Badly?

6. What kind of road is the title of a bestselling 1930s novel by Erskine Caldwell — and of a bestselling 1960s single by the Nashville Teens?

7. What surname is shared by Salman — a Pakistan Test cricketer between 2003 and 2010 — and Nicky, a Manchester United player from 1992 to 2004?

8. What did the Vatican first use in 1914 as a sign that a new pope had been elected?

9. What type of organ is the largest musical instrument?

10. In British public schools, what word was used for a younger boy who carried out duties for an older one?

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