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Pluto in true color as imaged by Ralph aboard the New Horizons spacecraft from a distance of 35,445 km (22,025 mi) on July 14, 2015.
Image NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/Alex Parker via Wikimedia Commons

Seven questions today: the first six offer a variety of general knowledge questions, and the seventh is supplied from the answers to the first six. There is a theme running through the questions.

One

In 2015, Numero … was the seventh and final novel by Italian author Umberto Eco. What word is missing from the title?


Two

Since 2006 the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Centre has recognised how many dwarf planets are in the Solar System? Secondly, what are these five dwarf planets?


Three

What Commonwealth in the United States was the 2nd state admitted to the Union, on 12 December 1787? Secondly, what are the other states which are officially commonwealths?


Four

A Mitsubishi fighter aircraft is considered to have been the most capable carrier-based fighter in the world when it was introduced early in World War II. By what one word name is it commonly known? 


Five

How many disciplines are there in a men’s gymnastics competition at the Summer Olympics?


Six

A duck is nought, not a bird: what is it?


Seven

Looking at your six answers above (the primary answer if there is more than one) and then rearranging them should give you an answer which is a song. Additionally, who is very much associated with this song coming to prominence?


Good luck! I’ll post the answers later.


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