Fred DeLuca, Aunt Ada and Poker Face

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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 global fast-food restaurant chain was founded by Fred DeLuca in 1965?

2. In analytical chemistry, what does GC stand for?

3. In which 1932 novel did Aunt Ada once see “something nasty in the woodshed”?

4. In December 2024, Sir Chris Wormald was appointed the head of which bureaucratic organisation?

5. Which gambling company sponsors the PDC World Darts Championship?

6. What is “A” in the title of jazz standard by Duke Ellington and “Blue” in that of a jazz standard by John Coltrane?

7. Which TV spin-off from the Wallace and Gromit franchise premiered on CBBC in 2007?

8. What is Amazon’s equivalent of Apple’s iPad?

9. Which 1984 song inspired the stage name of the singer whose hits include “Born This Way” and “Poker Face”?

10. Which free newspaper has the highest circulation of any British paper?

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