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WITHQUIZ The Withington Pub Quiz League ALBERT CLUB QUIZZES Cryptic Pics - Big Read Best Read (2) - Questions & Answers |
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WITHQUIZ The Withington Pub Quiz League ALBERT CLUB QUIZZES Cryptic Pics - Big Read Best Read (2) - Questions & Answers |
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24/04/2017 |
Big Read Best Read (2) |
In April 2003 BBC’s Big Read programme canvassed listeners views on the nation’s 100 best loved novels. Each of the following 10 novels was on that list. |
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Which 1957 Perry Como hot single features on the soundtrack of the film Love Actually? |
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Catch a Falling Star |
Seven Sisters cliffs in Sussex |
plus Four Seasons pop group |
plus crew of Apollo 11 |
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Catch-22 by Joseph Heller - No. 11 |
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Born in 1933 how was American singer, songwriter, musician, arranger, and civil rights activist Eunice Kathleen Waymon better known? |
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Nina Simone |
Princess Anna of Arendelle, main character from Disney film Frozen |
Karen Pickering, MBE GB Olympic swimmer |
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Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy - No.54 |
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3. |
Which 1960s New York group founded by John Sebastian and guitarist Zal Yanovsky had a hit with the song Daydream? |
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The Lovin’ Spoonful |
someone putting a collar on (collarer = cholera) |
thyme (= time) |
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Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez - No. 97 |
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Which two-act opera buffa by Rossini with a libretto by Cesare Sterbini is based on a Beaumarchais comedy? |
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The Barber of Seville |
the Delhi Durbar of the British Raj in India |
Tessa Jowell, Labour politician |
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Tess of the D’Urbevilles by Thomas Hardy - No. 26 |
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5. |
What nickname is given to Schubert's Ninth Symphony? |
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The Great |
Bea Arthur star of The Golden Girls TV series |
a young Mike Gatting, known throughout the cricket world as ‘Gatts’ |
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The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald - No. 43 |
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6. |
Whose debut solo album was called Come Away With Me? |
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Norah Jones |
work going on to ‘bridge it’ |
latest volume of Alan Bennett’s diary |
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Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding - No. 75 |
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7. |
Which US singing group includes rappers apl.de.ap and Taboo, and singer J Rey Soul? |
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The Black Eyed Peas (Peace) |
TV version of Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh |
Mary Rand GB Olympic Gold Medallist |
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War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy - No. 20 |
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8. |
Which US 1960s group consisted of three brothers their cousin and a friend called Al Jardine? |
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The Beach Boys |
a suit |
a bell (able) |
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A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth - No. 55 |
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Which legendary US guitarist produced the Buena Vista Social Club album? |
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Ry Cooder |
Katya Adler, BBC Europe Editor |
in the |
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The Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger – No. 15 |
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Which novelty song intended as a parody of songs like Agadoo and Do The Conga reached the UK Number One position in 1986? |
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The Chicken Song by Spitting Image |
John Bird, founder of The Big Issue |
Alex Song, former Arsenal midfielder |
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Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks – No. 13 |
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