Here are the answers to this week's quiz...
1. All shared the Booker Prize, the first two in 1974, the latter two in 1992.
2. Ytterby: yttrium, erbium, terbium and ytterbium were all isolated in the nearby quarry.
3. The first product bought online.
4. The children of Japanese immigrants.
5. Robbie Coltrane, born Anthony Robert McMillan.
6. Radio Luxembourg.
7. Chess.
8. Robin Williams.
9. The Ebola virus.
10. The International Cricket Council (moved its HQ from Lord's to the UAE in 2005).
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