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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 was the English name of the Peruvian Communist guerrilla group led by Abimael Guzmán until his capture in 1992?
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In 1965, Philip Larkin pronounced himself “well rewarded” by which Bob Dylan album that he was reviewing for the Daily Telegraph?
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What was EM Forster’s last novel — published in 1924, 46 years before his death?
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Which Oscar-winning film of 1950 is narrated by a dead Hollywood screenwriter called Joe Gillis?
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Sirius, Alpha Centauri and Betelgeuse are all stars in which galaxy?
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Which 21st-century Tony-award-winning Broadway and West End musical is a parody of Sesame Street, complete with puppets?
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Which fictional investigative journalist won a Pulitzer Prize for her work at the Daily Planet newspaper?
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Who played Rebecca Howe in the sitcom Cheers?
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What’s the three-word name of China’s initiative, launched in 2013, to develop global infrastructure?
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October 24, 1929 — aka Black Thursday — was the first day of which financial catastrophe?
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James Walton is co-host of “The Booker Prize Podcast”