WITHQUIZ The Withington Pub Quiz League ALBERT CLUB QUIZZES Cryptic Pics - Nation's Favourite Poem - Qs & As |
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30/10/2017 |
Nation's Favourite Poem |
Each answer is the title of a poem from The Nations 100 Favourite Poems determined by a 1995 BBC poll.
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Which Dylan album included the songs Don't Think Twice It's Alright and Blowin' in the Wind? |
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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) |
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The Equals were a British rock group founded by Pat Lloyd, John Hall, brothers Derv and Lincoln Gordon and which other well-known guitarist? |
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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) |
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Which 1967 Bobbie Gentry hit song told the story of a suicide at Tallahatchie Bridge? |
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Ode to Billie Joe |
a knight in Gail Platt (Coronation Street character) |
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Ode to a Nightingale (by John Keats No. 9) |
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Which Paul McCartney number one hit was written as a response to John Lennon's accusation that McCartney's music was overly sentimental? |
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Silly Love Songs |
a jay
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Pru Leith
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Alfred Hitchcock
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a frock coat
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The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock (by T S Eliot No. 26) |
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5. |
Who has the nickname 'The Godfather of Heavy Metal'? |
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Ozzy Osbourne |
Peter Mandelson (nicknamed Mandy by journalists) |
Hans & Lotte Hass (makers of underwater natural history films) |
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Ozymandias (by Percy Shelley No. 30) |
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6. |
Who had a hit in 2009 with the song Mama Do (Uh Oh, Uh Oh)? |
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Pixie Lott |
Lady of(fi)cial |
Post punk band The (The) |
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The Lady of Shalott (by Alfred, Lord Tennyson No. 2) |
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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? |
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Its Not Unusual (performed by Tom Jones) |
a waving butt |
drowning in paperwork |
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Not Waving But Drowning (by Stevie Smith No. 4) |
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8. |
Which US singer was killed on December 9th 1967 in a plane crash near Madison in Wisconsin? |
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Otis Redding |
Jail on a Monopoly Board |
J G Ballard |
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The Ballad of Reading Gaol (by Oscar Wilde No. 54) |
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9. |
Which popular British singer and songwriter was born Steven Demetre Georgiou in 1948? |
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Cat Stevens |
Honor Blackman as Pussy Galore in Goldfinger |
Howland Reed (character in Game of Thrones) |
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The Owl and The Pussy-Cat (by Edward Lear No. 45) |
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Which British film of the 1960s used the Sanctus from the Missa Luba as part of its soundtrack? |
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If |
Chβteau dIf |
a yew tree (in French if) |
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If (by Rudyard Kipling No. 1) |