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26/11/2012

Signs of the Zodiac

Each answer contains the name (in English or in Latin) of a sign of the zodiac – each sign appears at least once.

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Choose your general knowledge question from the 15 subjects listed below by clicking the question number.  Each answer contains the name (in English or in Latin) of a sign of the zodiac – each sign appears at least once.

1.

Marching music

2.

Film music

3.

Famous paintings

4.

Children in Need

5.

British Overseas Territories

6.

American inventions

7.

Connected names

8.

Book titles

9.

Executive transport

10.

Australian animals

11.

Baseball

12.

Anniversaries

13.

Modern buildings

14.

1970s TV

15.

1970s music

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1.

Marching music

Which marching song can you hear?  (click to play)

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Theme music

With what might you associate the tune Barwick Green, a maypole dance from the suite My Native Heath, written in 1924 by the Yorkshire composer Arthur Wood?

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Famous paintings

What’s the name of the painting by William Holman Hunt held in the Manchester Art gallery that depicts a well known scene from the Book of Leviticus?

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4.

Children in Need

In the 2007 Children in Need campaign which actress appropriately appeared in a sketch as a potential new manager for Hotel Babylon (the hotel in the BBC drama series)?

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British Overseas Territory

Road Town on the island of Tortola is the capital of which British Overseas Territory?

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American inventions

What was invented by Alfred Mosher Butts, an American, in 1938 and is literally worth 14?

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Connected names

What connects the names: Keppel, Edwards, Brydges, Gibson and Wilcox?

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Book titles

What is the name of the 1976 book on evolution written by this man?

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Executive transport

What followed the Granada in 1994 – targeted at the executive transport market?

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10.

Australian animals

Which wild animals are currently regarded as the greatest threat to the natural habitat of central Australia resulting in plans to cull large numbers of them?

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11.

Baseball

What is the name of the baseball team based in Minneapolis that represents Minneapolis and St Paul’s in the Central Division of America’s National Baseball League?

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Anniversaries

Which 60th anniversary was celebrated on September 15th 2000?

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Modern buildings

What is this building?

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1970s TV

What was the name of the 1970s LWT arts magazine programme that was variously presented by Russell Harty, Humphrey Burton and Peter Hall?

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1970s music

Which group can you hear singing this 1970s hit?  (click to play)

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