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24/09/2018

'Opera-Win-Three points'

Each answer is the name of a well-known opera (in the language by which it is usually known to English speakers)

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1.

Accompanied Shakira on Hips Don't Lie

 

Wyclef Jean

"You!"

one gin

 

Eugene Onegin (by Tchaikovsky)

2.

A 1966 film whose original title ended with the words 'Il Cattivo' with music by Ennio Morricone

 

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Boris Johnson

The World is Not Enough (Bond film)

 

Boris Godunov (by Mussorgsky)

3.

A long-running TV show starring (amongst others) John Goodman as Dan Conner

 

Roseanne

comic hero Dan Dare

Cavalier King Charles Spaniel

 

Der Rosenkavalier (by Richard Stauss)

4.

Had a number one UK hit in 1975 with Whispering Grass.

 

Windsor Davies and Don Estelle

Joe Pesci

Reg Varney

 

Don Giovanni (by Mozart)

5.

2000s UK pop group including Tom Fletcher and Harry Judd

 

McFly

Madame Tussauds

butternut squash

 

Madame Butterfly (by Puccini)

6.

Singer Norah Jones' musician father

 

Ravi Shankar

(Ei)lat

Harry Arter

 

La Traviata (by Verdi)

7.

Original composer of the music used in the film Platoon

 

Samuel Barber

(Adagio for Strings)

Las Setas in Seville

Plaza de  España in Seville

 

The Barber of Seville (by Rossini)

8.

Music famously used to advertise Hamlet cigars

 

Air on a G String

(by Bach)

gavel

Mr Rusty

(Magic Roundabout)

Ghana

Carol Vorderman

‘Rear of the Year’ winner 2011 & 2014

 

Cavalleria Rusticana (by Mascagni)

9.

Hoagy Carmichael song; includes the lyric:

"Here we are
In the cozy chair
Picking on a wishbone
From the Frigidaire"

 

 

Two Sleepy People

rand

Dot Cotton

(from EastEnders)

 

Turandot (by Puccini)

10.

British singer who had a 2001 hit with the song Thank You

 

Dido

 the knights who say "Ni!"

(from Monty Python and The Holy Grail)

an ass

Andy Carroll

 

Dido and Aeneas (by Purcell)