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30/10/2017

Nation's Favourite Poem

Each answer is the title of a poem from The Nation’s 100 Favourite Poems determined by a 1995 BBC poll.

 

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1.

Which Dylan album included the songs Don't Think Twice It's Alright and Blowin' in the Wind?

 

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Jeremy Kyle

(F)innish flag

Kenneth Lay

(CEO of ENRON)

  The Lake Isle of Innishfree    (by W B Yeats – No. 7)

2.

The Equals were a British rock group founded by Pat Lloyd, John Hall, brothers Derv and Lincoln Gordon and which other well-known guitarist?

 

Eddy Grant

the old vicar

(as played by Dick Emery)

Age UK logo

Chester A Arthur

  The Old Vicarage, Grantchester   (by Rupert Brooke – No. 61)

3.

Which 1967 Bobbie Gentry hit song told the story of a suicide at Tallahatchie Bridge?

 

Ode to Billie Joe

a knight in Gail Platt (Coronation Street character)

  Ode to a Nightingale    (by John Keats – No. 9)

4.

Which Paul McCartney number one hit was written as a response to John Lennon's accusation that McCartney's music was overly sentimental?

 

Silly Love Songs

a jay

 

Pru Leith

 

Alfred Hitchcock

 

a frock coat

 

  The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock    (by T S Eliot – No. 26)

5.

Who has the nickname 'The Godfather of Heavy Metal'?

 

Ozzy Osbourne

Peter Mandelson

(nicknamed ‘Mandy’ by journalists)

Hans & Lotte Hass

(makers of underwater natural history films)

  Ozymandias    (by Percy Shelley – No. 30)

6.

Who had a hit in 2009 with the song Mama Do (Uh Oh, Uh Oh)?

 

Pixie Lott

Lady of(fi)cial

Post punk band The (The)

  The Lady of Shalott    (by Alfred, Lord Tennyson – No. 2)

7.

In 1965 the BBC refused to screen a young singer and their number one hit because their image was deemed 'too sexy'.  What was the song?

 

Its Not Unusual

(performed by Tom Jones)

a waving butt

drowning in paperwork

  Not Waving But Drowning    (by Stevie Smith – No. 4)

8.

Which US singer was killed on December 9th 1967 in a plane crash near Madison in Wisconsin?

 

Otis Redding

Jail on a Monopoly Board

J G Ballard

  The Ballad of Reading Gaol    (by Oscar Wilde – No. 54)

9.

Which popular British singer and songwriter was born Steven Demetre Georgiou in 1948?

 

Cat Stevens

Honor Blackman as Pussy Galore in Goldfinger

Howland Reed

(character in Game of Thrones)

  The Owl and The Pussy-Cat    (by Edward Lear – No. 45)

10.

Which British film of the 1960s used the Sanctus from the Missa Luba as part of its soundtrack?

 

If

Chβteau d’If

a yew tree (in French ‘if’)

  If     (by Rudyard Kipling – No. 1)