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WITHQUIZ The Withington Pub Quiz League ALBERT CLUB QUIZZES Cryptic Pics - Playing a Round 2 - Questions & Answers |
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WITHQUIZ The Withington Pub Quiz League ALBERT CLUB QUIZZES Cryptic Pics - Playing a Round 2 - Questions & Answers |
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29/07/2019 |
Playing a Round 2 |
Each answer is the name of a celebrated 20th or 21st century play (many later became well-known films and/or TV dramas but they all started life on the stage). |
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What type of music played in Louisiana is derived from the music of the French-speaking Acadians of Canada? |
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Cajun music |
Cork |
The Needles, chalk cliffs, IOW |
Circle line stations |
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Caucasian Chalk Circle (by Bertolt Brecht) |
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The late Stephen Gateley was a member of which popular singing group? |
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Boyzone |
Famous History Boy Dan Snow |
Famous History Boy Simon Schama |
Famous History Boy Neil Oliver |
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The History Boys (by Alan Bennett) |
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Which famous theme from Edvard Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite was used in the film Soylent Green as Edward G Robinson lay dying? |
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Morning |
beak
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come here! |
a lecture (= Electra) |
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Mourning Becomes Electra (by Eugene ONeill) |
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4. |
The artwork from which album features bassist Paul Simonon smashing his Fender Precision Bass against the stage at the Palladium in New York City on 20 September 1979? |
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London Calling by The Clash |
An Inn |
Poster for the Bond film Spectre |
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An Inspector Calls (by J B Priestley) |
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Which 1960s/70s band consisted of Andy Fraser, Paul Rodgers, Simon Kirke and Paul Kossoff? |
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Free |
Mitford Sisters: Nancy, Diana and Unity |
Kardashian Sisters: Kourtney, Khloe and Kim |
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The Three Sisters (by Anton Chekhov) |
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6. |
Which well-known American singer was born in 1922 with middle names 'Mary Anne' and surname 'Kappelhoff'? |
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Doris Day |
Frank Leboeuf |
UK political party logos |
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The Birthday Party (by Harold Pinter) |
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The Overture from Rossini's opera William Tell was used as a theme for which long-running US TV programme? |
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The Lone Ranger |
Vera Lynn entertaining the troops in WW2 |
Misters (Bean & Ed) |
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Entertaining Mr Sloane (by Joe Orton) |
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8. |
Which famous Philadelphia tourist attraction had a march written in its honour by John Philip Sousa? |
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The Liberty Bell |
Brighton & Hove Albion FC logo (-B +C = Crichton) |
Admiral Horatio Nelson |
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The Admirable Crichton (by J M Barrie) |
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Which Essex-based band of the 1980s and 1990s were originally called Seymour? |
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Blur |
The Dance Class by Edgar Degas |
Anthony Head |
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Hedda Gabler (by Henrik Ibsen) |
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With which song did Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor rise to fame as a recording artist? |
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Royals (her stage name is Lorde) |
Jeremy Hunt |
Sign of the cross: and of the Son |
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The Royal Hunt of the Sun (by Peter Schaffer) |
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