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1. In his only-ever cinematic portrayal of a real person, Bruce Willis is seen here playing which man in the 1988 film Sunset? Dying in 1940, this man’s acting style influenced both John Wayne and Ronald Reagan; and his name connects to two-thousand-and-nine.

2. Twelve years before the film Cruising, Frank Sinatra played a New York cop investigating a homophobic murder in the film The Detective. The novel on which it was based had a sequel, set four-thousand kilometres away. This sequel was made into which famous film, which ends with a song performed by the baritone Vaughan Monroe?

3. What connects these expressions of triumph.

4.  The only Yiddish-language winner of the Nobel prize in literature; the founder of one of America’s first multi-national businesses; the forename and occupation of the most famous member of the cast of South Park. What two words? 

5. One person with this forename ran the company whose oil-platform Piper Alpha was destroyed by an explosion in 1988 — killing one-hundred-and-sixty-seven men. Another person with this forename is his great-grandson, a Hollywood star. The third person with this forename helped Barbra Streisand to the top of the charts in 2010. The fourth comes next in the following list: “Sergei“; “Sergei“; “Sergei“; “Sergei“; “Sergei“; “Sergei“; “Sergei“; “Sergei“; “Sergei“; “Sergei“; “Sergei“; “Sergei“; “Sergei“; “Sergei“; “Renaud“; “_____”. What forename

6. Twelve years before the film Cruising, Frank Sinatra played a New York cop investigating a homophobic murder in the film The Detective. The novel on which it was based had a sequel, set four-thousand kilometres away. This sequel was made into which famous film, which ends with a song performed by the baritone Vaughan Monroe?

7. The best-known lover of which person — mentioned in the lyrics of Billy Joel’s We Didn’t Start The Fire — has been in Northern Nevada Correctional Centre since 2014, with a scheduled release date of September 3, 2022

8. In 1970, which legendary musical artiste became the son-in-law of the US Army veteran George M Barnett? His second father-in-law was the diplomat Muhammad Abdulmajid

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In which year did these two have the same experience?

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Connection

1. See pics above. What connects.

1 What other major footballing award has been won by the footballers who scored the FA Cup-winning goals in 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2020?

2 Swapping two of the letters in the name of which 2020 US presidential candidate gives the paternal heritage of which president of the United States?

3 Two-word answer, please: what connects the battle of Trafalgar, ‘The Convergence Of The Twain’, and Dunkirk?

4 Launched in 2001, which digital television channel would, from its name, be the least-likely to screen Netflix’s 2020 smash hit series ‘The Queen’s Gambit’?

5 God bless them for trying: in 2021, Tokyo are attempting to host the Summer Olympic Games. Prior to Tokyo, in which year did the IOC previously announce that the Summer Olympic Games would be hosted in an Asian city?

6 On June 7, 2020, how did the little-known Irish sculptor John Cassidy make the news, for something he did in 1895?

7 The uncle of which Oscar-winning actress famously wrote the words, “Wild thing / You make my heart sing”? Less cheerfully, her father said the words, “The United States is engaged in the battle of righteousness versus Satan” in November 2020.

8 Noted for the effortless charm and chemistry which enabled them to become society superstars in the eastern Mediterranean, what’s surname is shared by these siblings?

9 What is the only forename to be shared by one of the stars of ‘The Inbetweeners’, and one of the four main characters in ‘The Inbetweeners’? “

10 Responsible for Rhodes construction, or Doc Sinha self-destruction? (6,2 6)

, 11 Nicknamed “the Gibraltar of the Danube”, the fortress of Petrovaradin hosts the annual EXIT music festival in which city in Serbia — the sole European capital of culture for 2021? Removing the last letter of its name describes Britain’s current travel status.

12 The ‘Scrabble’ letter-values for the last four letters of which actor’s stage-name are eight, four, one, and eight?

13 What first name and surname link the only official warlord to be currently living in County Durham; and a ubiquitous name in basketball, thanks to the item of footwear named after him?

14 A familiar word from social media, what are the first four letters of the name of China’s current prime minister — officially titled “the Premier of the State Council”?

15 In 2020, two British men were nominated for Academy Awards for acting — both for playing men of what occupation?

16 On January 6, 2013, a video called “My Wedding Speech” was uploaded to YouTube, and — with twenty-two million views, as of today — may be the most viewed wedding speech in history. Much in the news in recent weeks, which author and broadcaster was the recipient of the speech?

17 When covered by Del Shannon, which song became the first by Lennon and McCartney to enter the Billboard singles chart? When covered by the company’s employees, it became the first composition by Lennon and McCartney to be used in a John Lewis advert.

18 Costa Rica became the first Central American country to legalise gay marriage. What is its currency?

19 Which Conservative MP appeared on ‘Brass Eye’ in February, 1997 — lending his support to the vigilante crime-fighting methods of Batman? Two months later, he lost his seat of Brent North, in British parliamentary history’s largest-ever Conservative-to-Labour swing. Whether these two facts are related is a matter for debate.

20. Which historical incident of 2018 is being told with these songs?

1. The last three words in the title of which 1997 comedy-film could also be what the aviator Roland Garros rejected — when he chose instead to attend the Lycée Janson-de-Sailly?

2. One was found dead in a hotel in Rennes in April, 1806, with six stab-wounds to the left lung and one to the heart — all of them deemed to be self-inflicted.
One of them was pronounced dead in Leeuwen in 1982.
In 2017, a third provided Ford with the same job that he’d enjoyed thirty-five years earlier.
The fourth is the only man from his nation to be offered the choice “Whole, two-per-cent, or skim?” on a Memorial Day weekend.
What surname?

3. In a song first heard in 1959, the words “remote“, “throat“, “moat“, “tote“, “table d’haute“, “afloat“, “coat“, and “gloat” all rhyme with which word?

4. Picture question: as well as being comic greats, these four are all associated with what song?

5. What happened five times in the United States of America, between 1972 and 1975; but didn’t happen in the United Kingdom until 1990? The only time it happened in both countries simultaneously was seven years later, as a result of human tragedy.

6. Picture question: What’s going on here?

7. Picture question: for a number of years, I’ve been in love with the Irish actor Cillian Murphy. Which fellow Irishman am I channelling to let him know?

8. 1989: Ulaanbaatar and Springfield, Illinois.
1991: no airports whatsoever.
2020: New Orleans and Salzburg.
What’s the connection?

9. Arguably the second-most-famous song ever to be sung by a Rolf — with a title almost, but not quite, as dodgy — which song is approximated by 0.94117647058?