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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 popular athletics sport has featured in the Olympics only in 1912, 1920 and 1924?
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Which movement, celebrating its centenary this year, was founded in Britain as a pacifist, socialist alternative to the Scouts?
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Which award-winning film, directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, had a cast of non-professional actors including Enrique Irazoqui as Jesus Christ?
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In 1951, Sweden’s Kiki Håkansson was the first winner of which contest, founded by Eric Morley?
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The Vulgate was an early translation of the Bible into which language?
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Which Charles Dickens novel features the characters Mr Turveydrop, Lady Dedlock and Esther Summerson?
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Who did Will Smith slap during the 2022 Oscars?
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In the 1980s, Mike Post had an instrumental hit on both sides of the Atlantic with the theme from which TV cop show?
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Which American actor — previously famous as a TV detective — played the title role in the controversially televised 2005 version of Jerry Springer: the Opera?
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In a traditional British pub, what’s the alternative name for the saloon bar?
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