Vietnam War, Bophuthatswana resort and Ben Jonson

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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 was the first Vietnam War film to win a Best Picture Oscar?

2. Which Bafta-winning 1990s sitcom had the working title Dead Belgians Don’t Count?

3. Which resort was officially opened on 7 December 1979 in Bophuthatswana?

4. Which bestselling debut novel of 1980 is set in an Italian monastery in 1327?

5. What’s the most common triangular road sign in the UK?

6. The observation deck on which tower is 520ft high and offers views of the Puget Sound?

7. Which six-letter word can mean a seam of coal, a series of online posts or the spiral part of a screw?

8. In Ben Jonson’s poem “To Celia” what three words precede “only with thine eyes”?

9. Who were the only band to have three singles in the 1980s that entered the UK charts at number one?

10. HMS Bounty, of mutiny fame, was on a mission to collect and transport what kind of fruit trees from Tahiti?

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