The Missing Link - 6
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What was the former name for the element Mercury, thought to be the liquid form of another element?
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Which George Clooney movie was set on the doomed fishing boat, Andrea Gail?
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What was the name of Robert Stephenson's steam locomotive that won the Rainhill Rail Trials in 1829?
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What was the nickname of Capt Benjamin Pierce, played by Alan Alda in M*A*S*H?
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Which is the largest of the weasel family?
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Which of the Seven Wonders of the World was a statue of the Greek god of the sun, Helios?
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Which Norwegian adventurer crossed the Pacific on his hand-built raft, the Kon-Tiki, in 1947?
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Which athletics event began in Hawaii in 1978 with a 2.4mile open water swim, a 112 mile cycle and a marathon?
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The device on a bicycle that powers the lights is not, strictly speaking, a dynamo. What is it?
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What links the previous 9 answers?
The Missing Link - 7
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What does a fletcher make?
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The pilchard is a member of which family?
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A naval order to ‘splice the mainbrace’ involved doing what?
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Lego produces approximately 36 billion of what every year?
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How is Europe’s tallest ferris wheel better known?
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What was Templeton Peck’s nickname in The A-Team?
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Which 4’7 German sex therapist has recently seen a play based on her life open on Broadway?
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Which are the two major tributaries of the Nile?
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Which is the smallest US state?
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What's the link between the previous 9 questions?
The Missing Link - 8
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Which English sailor led the second circumnavigation of the globe on the Golden Hind?
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Which son of Tony Blair was the first legitimate child born to a serving Prime Minister in over 150 years?
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Which 5 letter word is the opposite of rural?
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Which Young Ones actor is married to Jennifer Saunders?
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Which actor was the original lead in Jesus Christ Superstar and later starred with Jan Francis in Just Good Friends?
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Which MP, chef and Just a Minute regular had a brother called Lucian?
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Which Australian golfer spent 331 weeks as world number one in the 80s and 90s?
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Which American breakfast dish consists of two halves of an English muffin topped with ham or bacon, poached eggs and Hollandaise sauce?
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Led Zeppelin were made up of Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Bonham and who?
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What's the link between the previous 9 questions?
The Missing Link - 9
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Which writer’s works have included the Alex Rider series of novels, Foyle’s War and New Blood?
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How is the substitute in a cricket match referred to?
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In which European city is the Bridge of Sighs?
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Who became King on the death of his brother, Richard the Lionheart?
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Which actor played Battery Sergeant Major Tudor Williams in It Ain’t Half Hot, Mum?
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Who wrote The Owl and the Pussycat?
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What are the comedy pairing of the meerkat and the warthog called in The Lion King?
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Which TV series of the 80s sounded eponymous but was in fact about Inspector Jean Darblay followed by
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What’s the name for a village that doesn’t have a church of it’s own?
What's the link between the previous 9 questions?
The Missing Link - 10
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Donald Trump became the oldest ever President at first inauguration. Who was the previous oldest?
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Who was the target of the assassin in the book and film The Day of the Jackal?
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Which Venetian explorer wrote Book of the Marvels of the World, which introduced westerners to the size and wealth of China?
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Who painted Salvator Mundi, sold for a world record $450million in November?
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Who was murdered outside his home in the Dakota Building, New York in December 1980?
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Which English folk hero’s companions included Much the Miller’s Son and Alan a Dale?
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Which missionary once said ‘By blood, I am Albanian, by citizenship, Indian, by faith, a Catholic nun and by calling, I belong to the world’?
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Who succeeded Dwight D Eisenhower as US President?
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The Ballon D’Or was originally for European Footballer of the Year, more recently for the World equivalent. It has been won by 4 Manchester United players – Denis Law in 1964, Bobby Charlton in 1966, who won in 1968 and 2008?
What's the link between the previous 9 questions?