3. Godley & Creme
10. Rock The Casbah by The Clash
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4. A guitar gone wrong. A Beatles record wrecker. A sitar.
5. Broadway ?
21.Paul McCartney/Wings, Live and let Die, fabulous production. RIP George Martin.
Quote: Nick Nockerty @ 10th March 2016, 10:07 AM GMT4. A Beatles record wrecker.
Quote: Nick Nockerty @ 10th March 2016, 10:07 AM GMT21.Paul McCartney/Wings, Live and let Die, fabulous production. RIP George Martin.
Two?
Meanwhile...............
7 Det. Chief Insp. Frank Haskins
8 Rudolph Valentino
9 Brandon Lee?
That Friday Quiz on a thursday? Why not, to hell with social conventions!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Quote: Gordon Bennett @ 10th March 2016, 1:22 PM GMTThat Friday Quiz on a thursday? Why not, to hell with social conventions!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
'Smatter Gordon - all the easy ones gone?
Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 10th March 2016, 3:51 PM GMT'Smatter Gordon - all the easy ones gone?
19. Carpenters
Quote: Gordon Bennett @ 10th March 2016, 4:21 PM GMT
Yes, it was only two on the first day, but the new rule now is you are allowed to answer three................that is IF you know any.
1. The director of which organization that campaigns for human rights has announced that she is going to step down? Liberty (Shami Chakrabarti). I asked for the organization, so only ½ mark if you just answered Shami Chakrabarti
2. Which Hollywood star's back-garden flooded this week when the River Thames burst its banks? George Clooney
3. Which duo, formerly with 10cc, went on to produce music videos in the early 1980s? Godley & Creme
4. What is this? Sitar
5. The name of which part of Manhattan was synonymous with the American music industry in the late 19th and early 20th centuries? Tin Pan Alley
6. Which popular cocktail is named after an Italian Renaissance painter? Bellini
7. What was the name of Regan and Carter's boss in The Sweeney? (Frank) Haskins
8. Which actor's contract with MGM in the 1920s forbade him from smiling on screen? Buster Keaton
9. What links these pictures? Russell (Crow(e) and Brand)
10. Name the hit from the 1980s. Rock The Casbah - The Clash
11. Which junior health minister resigned in 1988 following a row about the presence of salmonella in eggs? Edwina Currie
12. Which range of mountains separates the Highlands and Lowlands of Scotland? Grampians
13. Name the costume drama. The Age of Innocence
14. What is it called when you take the name for a single aspect of a thing to refer to the whole thing itself - such as using 'the ring' to refer to boxing as a whole? Metonymy or synecdoche
15. What is the name of the thorough maintenance check undergone by commercial aircraft every six years? The D Check (or HMV - 'Heavy Maintenance Visit')
16. Named after a famous ship, which channel forms part of the border between two Latin American countries? The Beagle Channel
17. Who is this? Brie Larson
18. On my skiing holiday in the Pyrenees, I was exactly half way up the ski-lift when it broke down. I was in chair number 9, and I could see the chair opposite on the way down was number 81. The chairs were all numbered consecutively. How many chairs were there altogether? 144
19. What connects these pictures: Carpenters singles (Top of The World; Jambalaya; Please Mr Postman; Solitaire; Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft)
20. Unscramble the two words : A A A H I K M S U U Y Z SUZUKI & YAMAHA
21. Goldfinger / Live & Let Die
Maths workings:
There is 72 difference between 9 and 81, so there are 71 chairs from my chair to the chair opposite marked 81, and also another 71 from chair 81 back around to my number 9 chair.
71+71=142+2(chairs 9+81)=144
Steve Have we got a quiz this week mate
6 Paul
10 Grappling Hook
14 Shag
15.Quentin Crisp
2.fish & chip shop
12. The Pill.
16. Trepanning.
17. Eartha Kitt