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WITHQUIZ The Withington Pub Quiz League ALBERT CLUB QUIZZES Cryptic Pics - Playing a Round - Questions & Answers |
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30/07/2018 |
Playing a Round |
Each answer is the name of a celebrated 20th century play (many later became well-known films and/or TV dramas but they all started life on the stage). |
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In which film is Peter O'Toole cast as King Henry II of England with Katharine Hepburn playing Eleanor of Aquitaine? |
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The Lion in Winter |
Howard Spring, author |
Michael Fall(on) |
Somer(set) Maughan |
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A Man For All Seasons (by Robert Bolt) |
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Which 1990s band had a hit with U R The Best Thing but became best known for a song that was adopted by a political party in 1997? |
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D:Ream (Things Can Only Get Better was Labour's 1997 anthem) |
Streaker (Streetcar) |
A Boy Named Sue |
s(p)ire |
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A Streetcar Named Desire (by Tennesseee Williams) |
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Which band's debut single was entitled I Can't Explain? |
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The Who |
Sir Fred (‘s Afraid) Goodwin of RBS infamy |
Wolf Hall BBC drama |
Virginia |
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Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (by Edward Albee) |
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Which Los Angeles band was formed in the 1980s by singer Anthony Kiedis, guitarist Hillel Slovak, bassist Flea, and drummer Jack Irons? |
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Red Hot Chili Peppers |
Ruth Davidson |
Rin Tin Tin |
Kerry Katona (‘Cat on a’) |
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (by Tennessee Williams) |
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Which band had a hit with the record Use Somebody? |
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Kings of Leon |
Philip May (Theresa’s hubby) |
Pig: Francis Bacon, Jon Hamm, & Bolton Wanderers (aka ‘The Trotters’) |
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Pygmalion (by George Bernard Shaw) |
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In 2003 a readers' poll in Q Magazine voted a number one single by which UK band as the 'Worst song of all time'? |
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Black Lace (the song was Agadoo) |
Chemical symbol for arsenic |
Old Trafford |
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Arsenic and Old Lace (by Joseph Kesselring) |
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Which US band had a hit with the song Joanna? |
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Kool and the Gang ('Kool' = ‘look’ back) |
Holiday Inn |
Justin (L)anger |
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Look Back in Anger (by John Osborne) |
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Which UK garage and hip hop collective from Battersea have been credited with starting the trend towards the Grime music genre? |
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So Solid Crew |
Sitting Bull |
L (50) + L (50) in Roman numerals = C (100) |
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The Crucible (by Arthur Miller) |
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Labi Siffre had a hit with a song in 1971 but ten years later which group re-recorded the song and had an even bigger hit with it? |
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Madness (the song was It Must Be Love) |
George Soros |
Douglas Hurd or Richard III nicknames for a third class degree |
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The Madness of George III (by Alan Bennett) |
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What is the popular name for the 9th Symphony that was completed in Iowa, USA by a Czech emigré? |
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From the New World by Dvorak |
Simon Weston (‘Western’), Falklands war veteran |
Playboy |
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The Playboy of the Western World (by J M Synge) |
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