Phrygia, Margaret Atwood and E.T.

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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. Which 19th-century figure has a UK university named after him — and was played by Kenneth Branagh in the opening ceremony for the 2012 London Olympics?

2. Which now common two-word phrase for a specific American disaster was coined by the journalist Robert Geiger in 1935?

3. Which now common two-word phrase is derived from a Greek myth about the king of Phrygia?

4. The four suits in a standard tarot pack are cups, swords, pentacles — and what?

5. Which 1998 novel by Margaret Atwood shares its name with that of a road safety device?

6. Which of the “rude mechanicals” in A Midsummer Night’s Dream shares his name with that of a musical instrument?

7. What first became a feature of the annual Oscar ceremony in 1961 and is now 900 feet long?

8. The 1982 film E.T. did much to popularise which annual autumnal children’s activity in the UK?

9. According to Shirley Conran’s 1975 housework manual Superwoman, “Life is too short to stuff a . . . ” what?

10. Which of the 11 London Underground lines has the fewest letters in its name?

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