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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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Who was the last of the American Founding Fathers to serve as US President?
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Who’s the only fiction writer whose full name appears in the lyrics of a Beatles’ song?
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Which game takes its name from the Latin for “I play”?
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Which song from an animated film won the Oscar for Best Song in 2014?
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What was the surname of the legal pseudonym adopted by Norma McCorvey in what ended up as a landmark case at the US Supreme Court?
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Which writer and orator was murdered in 43BC on the orders of Mark Antony?
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What country has the most native Spanish speakers?
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Fernande Olivier, Marie-Thérèse Walter and Dora Maar were all painted by which artist?
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Which playwright was born in Canterbury in 1564 and died in south-east London in 1593?
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What chronologically comes between a zygote and a foetus?
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