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27/07/2015

"Not a lot of people know that"

Each answer is the name of a film starring Michael Caine.

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1.

Nickname of the singer born at Tupelo Mississippi who died on August 16, 1977

 

The King

(i.e. Elvis Presley)

The Man Who – Travis album

Keith Wood – former Irish Rugby Union International

St Bees Head – Western start point for the Coast to Coast walk

 The Man Who Would Be King 

2.

A popular singer from North London with the surname Sahatçiu was born in 1990 in Pristina, SFR Yugoslavia.  How is she better known?

 

Rita Ora

Ed Balls

You

Kate Middleton

Danny Ing(s)

 Educating Rita 

3.

Who wrote the standard pop song Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow??

 

Carole King & Gerry Goffin

Miss Piggy & Beaker – Muppet characters

Christmas roses

 The Muppets' Christmas Carol 

4.

Which chart-topping group comprised Dave Hemingway, Paul Heaton, Norman Cook, Stan Cullimore?

 

The Housemartins

Australian rules football playing area

Slad, setting for Laurie Lee’s Cider with Rosie

 The Cider House Rules 

5.

Which popular song has a middle eight section with the lyrics:

"A love like ours / Could never die / As long as I / Have you near me."?

 

And I Love Her

(by The Beatles)

Hanna-Barbera cartoons

(The Flintstones, Tom & Jerry,

Scooby-Doo, Yogi Bear)

The Seven Sisters,

chalk cliffs in Sussex

 Hanna and Her Sisters 

6.

Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975) was the best selling album of the 20th century in the US.  Whose hits were they?

 

The Eagles

Grateful Dead Band - logo

LAN

 The Eagle Has Landed 

7.

What is the nickname for Mendelssohn's Fourth Symphony?

 

The Italian Symphony

Blow drier + The Doors

Reference to quote:

“You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off”

Steve Jobs

 

 The Italian Job 

8.

Written between 1887 and 1890 it is the best known work of this composer.  The final section is known as In Paradisum.  What is the work?

 

Faure’s Requiem

Lynne Featherstone MP – Conservative Minister

Raymond Burr

 Funeral in Berlin 

9.

Which 1970s British bubblegum and glam rock band had a hit with Fox on the Run?

 

Sweet

Caliph Kapok

(from Disney’s Aladdin)

hornier

 California Suite 

10.

Dizzy was a 1969 hit for Tommy Roe - but who had a hit with the same song in 1991?

 

Vic Reeves

The Great Escape

(starring Steve McQueen)

Tory party logo

 Escape to Victory