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.

  1. In January 2022, what became the first YouTube video to reach 10bn views?

  2. Which 2015 novel set a new record for time spent at number one in UK fiction hardback bestsellers chart — with 20 weeks?

  3. “The Mass” composed by JS Bach in 1749 is in which key?

  4. Which Michael J Fox film of 1985 spawned a sequel in 1987, an animated TV series in 1986 and six seasons of an MTV drama between 2011 and 2017?

  5. What’s the last word of Rudyard Kipling’s poem “If”?

  6. What was the name of the dog that features on the logo for His Master’s Voice — later HMV?

  7. What was the code-name of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima?

  8. Which outlaw was killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett in July 1881?

  9. Who’s missing from this sequence: The Duke of Wellington, George Stephenson, —————, Winston Churchill?

  10. What was the only number one single by Iron Maiden?

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