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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.
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“Let me hire him too” are the first words spoken by which character in Shakespeare’s King Lear?
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In 2000, which new Cadbury bar did Anthea Turner and Grant Bovey controversially advertise in their wedding photos for OK! magazine?
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With what name did Marcel Duchamp sign the urinal he exhibited as “Fountain” in 1917?
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Which British playwright, who died in 1973, was buried in the garden of his home in Jamaica?
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Which 1940 Laurel and Hardy film is set partly in England?
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Which debut single by EastEnders actor Nick Berry became a UK number one hit?
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Who’s on trial for theft in the final two chapters of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland?
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What’s (typically) the smallest animal in the Chinese zodiac?
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In 1998, which Rhodesian-born cricketer became the 24th batsman in history to score 100 first-class hundreds?
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Constance Spry and Rosemary Hume are credited with creating which dish, first served on June 2 1953?
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