- Which band was Chester Bennington the lead singer of until his suicide in 2017?
- Which fictional character’s Expedition provided the title for the last and best-known novel by Tobias Smollett, published in 1771?
- Which social networking website was launched in 2003, and was sold to Microsoft for $26.4 billion on 8 December 2016
- Which toy originated in the attempted development of springs for the support and stabilization of shipboard instruments in rough seas?
- In which TV quiz show, which ran on the BBC from 2000 to 2012, were the best and worst players in each round announced by narrator Jon Briggs?
- Which composer is considered to be the first successful Russian classical composer, with works including the operas A Life for the Tsar and Ruslan and Lyudmila?
- What term is used to describe fossils which are transitional, and represent a phase of development between two states; for example, fossils which show the transformation between anthropoid apes and humans?
- Which Doctor Who episode, frequently voted the best ever in viewer polls, shows the Weeping Angels for the first time?
- What type of jewellery, primarily worn by men on a particular item of clothing, has types called Torpedo, Ogham and Spool?
- What is the link between the above nine answers?
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- Which band was Chester Bennington the lead singer of until his suicide in 2017?
A: Linkin Park - Which fictional character’s Expedition provided the title for the last and best-known novel by Tobias Smollett, published in 1771?
A: Humphrey Clinker - Which social networking website was launched in 2003, and was sold to Microsoft for $26.4 billion on 8 December 2016?
A: Linkedin - Which toy’s invention originated in the attempted development of springs for the support and stabilization of shipboard instruments in rough seas?
A: Slinky - In which TV quiz show, which ran on the BBC from 2000 to 2012, were the best and worst players from each round announced by narrator Jon Briggs?
A: The Weakest Link - Which composer is considered to be the first successful Russian classical composer, with works including the operas A Life for the Tsar and Ruslan and Lyudmila?
A: Glinka - What term is used to describe fossils which are transitional, and represent a phase of development between two states; for example, fossils which show the transformation between anthropoid apes and humans?
A: Missing Link - Which Doctor Who episode, frequently voted the best ever in viewer polls, shows the Weeping Angels for the first time?
A: Blink - What type of jewellery, primarily worn by men on a particular item of clothing, has types called Torpedo, Ogham and Spool?
A: Cufflink - What is the link between the above nine answers?
A: They all contain the word “link”
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