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. Britain’s three remaining Butlin’s holiday camps are in Skegness, Bognor Regis — and which Somerset town?

  2. Which thoroughfare in Toronto is Canada’s equivalent of Wall Street?

  3. Which game, played by teams of two, has been an official sport at the summer Olympics since 1996?

  4. Who was the first British pop singer to be knighted?

  5. Which 1991 Martin Scorsese film was a remake of a movie from 1962?

  6. In 1934, the surgeon Robert Wilson sold a fake photograph of what to the Daily Mail for £100?

  7. The Royal Courts of Justice are on which London street?

  8. Which 1965 book by Frank Herbert went on to become of the biggest selling science-fiction novels of all time?

  9. What’s the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet?

  10. Which long-running MTV reality show features groups of young people in the north-east of England?

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James Walton is co-host of “The Booker Prize Podcast”

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