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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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What’s the second longest river in China?
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Which of the D-Day beaches comes first alphabetically?
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Culture Yard in Kingston, Jamaica is home to a museum celebrating the history and culture of which neighbourhood within the city?
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“Adoration of the Earth” and “The Sacrifice” are the two parts of which ballet, first performed in Paris in 1913?
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Which early 1990s single was the only UK number one by Whigfield?
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Which festival, held annually in Powys, was founded in 1988 by Peter Florence and his parents Rhoda and Norman?
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Which anti-slavery novel of 1852 is subtitled Life among the Lowly?
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What now familiar two-word phrase was first used in the Evening Standard to summarise the Royal Society’s 1963 report The Emigration of Scientists from the United Kingdom?
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Which TV series of the late 1990s starred Richard E Grant as the 18th-century British aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney, whose famous alter ego is the title of the show?
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In 1984, which Australian became the first wicketkeeper to reach 350 Test dismissals?
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