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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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Which species of bird has the longest annual migration?
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Which 19th-century American feminist kept her maiden name on getting married, inspiring the collective nickname for women who do the same?
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“I will have answered this question by the end of the quiz” is a sentence using what verb tense?
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What was the Devil in, according to the title of a hard-boiled crime novel of 1990 by Walter Mosley?
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What country renamed itself Burkina Faso in 1984?
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Which hit movie of 1997 begins with an extract from a 1971 film promoting Sheffield as a “city on the move”?
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In 1977, who replaced Glen Matlock in a prominent British band?
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In which specific — and therefore two-word — part of the human body is the cochlea?
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In the culture wars, SJW stands for which generally pejorative term?
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Which TV game show has been presented by Bob Monkhouse, Max Bygraves, Les Dennis and Gino D’Acampo?
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