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The Missing Link - 16

  • Which ship did John Cabot sail from Bristol to North America in 1497?

  • Which actress, who is married to Daniel Craig, won an Oscar for The Constant Gardener?

  • What job title was given to the person responsible for wax and candles in a medieval household?

  • Who was the White House intern whose affair with President Clinton led to his impeachment?

  • Which Israeli illusionist is most famous for bending spoons?

  • Who is the lead singer of The Supremes?

  • What is Microsoft’s search engine called?

  • What is a baby kangaroo called?

  • Which painter, whose surname is Van Rijn, is known by his first name?

  • What links the previous 9 answers?

Matthew
Rachel Weisz
Chandler
Monica Lewinsky
Uri Geller
Diana Ross
Bing
Joey
Rembrandt
Friends
Rachel, Joey, Ross & Monica Geller and Chandler Bing are all characters. Matthew is the first name of Perry and LeBlanc. The Rembrandts sang the theme – I’ll Be There For You

The Missing Link - 17

  • Who played the eponymous detective in 70 episodes of Agatha Christie’s Poirot?

  • Which restaurant chain has 35000 outlets across 119 countries, serving roughly 68 million people per day?

  • Who invented the geodetic airframe and the earthquake bomb, as well as his rather more famous bouncing bomb?

  • Which car manufacturer had models including the Cambridge, the Ambassador and the Montego?

  • Which off-shoot of Morse is also an island in the Outer Hebrides?

  • Which cyclist was stripped of his 7 Tour De France titles after admitting using performance enhancing drugs?

  • Who wrote Little Lord Fauntleroy and The Secret Garden?

  • Which organ of the body, which stores bile, is removed in a cholecystectomy?

  • What is the mass of hexagonal wax cells built by honey bees called?

  • What's the link between the previous 9 questions?

David Suchet
McDonald's
Barnes Wallis
Austin
Lewis
Lance Armstrong
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Gall Bladder
Honeycomb
ITN Newsreaders
John Suchet, Trevor McDonald, Carol Barnes, Mark Austin, Martyn Lewis, Pamela Armstrong, Alistair Burnet, Sandy Gall, Gordon Honeycombe were all ITN Newsreaders

The Missing Link - 18

  • Which American singer-songwriter died in 1997 after crashing his single seater plane in the Pacific?

  • In which fictional town is the Simpsons set?

  • Where is the US Masters held every year?

  • Where in Massachusetts were a series of with trials held in 1692?

  • Who was the first republican President of the United States?

  • On which project did Tony Benn replace an ‘E’ that Harold Wilson had removed, stating it stood for ‘Excellence, England, Europe and the Entente Cordiale’?

  • Which allied military leader was created Viscount of El-Alamein in 1946?

  • How is the flatfish with the latin name Solea Solea more commonly known?

  • Which German battleship, sister ship of the Tirpitz, sank HMS Hood in 1941?

  • What's the link between the previous 9 questions?

John Denver
Springfield
Augusta
Salem
Abraham Lincoln
Concorde
Bernard Montgomery
Dover Sole
Bismarck
US State Capitals
Denver, Colorado; Springfield, Illinois; Augusta, Maine; Salem, Oregon; Lincoln, Nebraska; Concord, New Hampshire; Montgomery, Alabama; Dover, Delaware; Bismarck, North Dakota

The Missing Link - 19

  • Where do Newcastle United play their home games?

  • Which team is the oldest association football team in Scotland and play their home games at Hampden Park?

  • If Big Ben is out of action, the bell in which building stands in for broadcast of the time signal?

  • Which landmark was bought by Robert McCullough, who dismantled it and exported it to Arizona?

  • Which Gerry Rafferty song was famous for it’s saxophone solo?

  • Which car manufacturer’s current range includes the Adam, the Viva and the Vivaro?

  • Which children’s BBC show about a fictional school ran for 30 years from 1978?

  • Which song won the Eurovision Song Contest for Abba?

  • Which game with apparently complicated, but in truth non existent rules is a regular feature of I’m Sorry, I Haven’t a Clue?

    What's the link between the previous 9 questions?

St James' Park
Queen's Park
St Paul's
London Bridge
Baker Street
Vauxhall
Grange Hill
Waterloo
Mornington Crescent
Underground Stations
The answers are all also London Underground, or Tube stations

The Missing Link - 20

  • Which English Dame has played Mrs James Bond, Emma Peel and Lady Olenna Tyrell in Game of Thrones?

  • The Northern Lights are also called the Aurora Borealis, what about the Southern Lights?

  • What was the name of the Italian cruise ship that capsized off Tuscany in 2012?

  • Which planet is Spock from in Star Trek?

  • What is Mrs McGonagall’s first name in the Harry Potter films (she is played by Maggie Smith)??

  • Which is Britain’s best-selling safety match?

  • What’s the maiden name of Samantha Womack, Britain’s Eurovision entry in 1991 and most famous for playing Ronnie Mitchell in EastEnders’?

  • Which Alton Towers and Thorpe Park roller coaster is also the sub-title of the 10th Star Trek movie?

  • Which West End theatre suffered a ceiling collapse during The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time in 2013?

    What's the link between the previous 9 questions?

Diana Rigg
Aurora Australis
Costa Concordia
Vulcan
Minerva
Swan Vesta
Janus
Nemesis
Apollo
Roman Gods
Diana is goddess of the Hunt, Aurora the Dawn, Concordia Harmony, Minerva Wisdom & Vesta the Hearth. Vulcan is god of the Forge, Janus Doors, Nemesis Revenge & Apollo Music
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