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. What’s the Spanish equivalent of the FA Cup?

  2. Which album that’s now one of the bestselling of all time was released on March 1 1973?

  3. What’s the biggest ethnic group in China — and the world?

  4. What word is missing from this line by William Wordsworth: “The child is the ____ of the man”?

  5. What was the more common title used by the Countess of Snowdon, who died in 2002?

  6. What has been based at St James Gate, Dublin since 1759?

  7. Which Gospel writer is traditionally thought to have also written the fifth book of the New Testament, The Acts of the Apostles?

  8. In the sitcom Are You Being Served? who was the junior sales assistant in the menswear department?

  9. Since 2009, what has been Samsung’s main brand of smartphone?

  10. In a speech on March 8 1983 what two-word phrase did President Ronald Reagan use to describe the Soviet Union?

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

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