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Each answer contains a word or phrase that is (or sounds like it is) associated with the word ‘Fifth’ or ‘Five’.

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1.

Which BAFTA-winning BBC TV show started life in 1977 and has been presented variously by Angela Rippon, William Woollard and Noel Edmonds before its current team of presenters?

2.

What is the State capital of Mississippi?

3.

Whereabouts in Didsbury is there a blue plaque to the author Howard Spring?

4.

What was the name of Tony Harrison’s 1985 poem concerning a visit to his parents’ grave in Leeds which Channel 4 controversially broadcast in 1987 despite a howl of protest from MPs, amongst others, who objected to “its stream of 4-letter words”?

5.

What is the common name, derived from the Latin word for dove, for the bell-shaped flowers, known botanically as aquilegia?

6.

Which British electronics company, formed in 1931, has the stairwell of its London headquarters building on the sleeve of the Beatles Please Please Me album?

7.

What happened simultaneously on July 13th 1985 in London and Philadelphia?

8.

What special name is given to the numbers 6, 28, 496 and 8128?

9.

The Beatles’ songs Day Tripper and We Can Work It Out, marked which first for the group?

10.

Who formed a relationship with housemate Ziggy on the 2007 Big Brother TV show?