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29/09/2014

Decision time

Each answer contains (often hidden) the word 'aye' or the word 'nay'.

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1.

1970s music

Who is performing this?   (click to play)

Isaac Hayes

(the theme from Shaft)
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2.

TV football

What was the name of the wife of Earl’s Park FC’s star player, Kyle Pascoe? She memorably fell victim to a couple of fans in the ‘breasts on fire’ incident during her Hen Night?

Chardonnay

(the TV programme was called Footballers’ Wives)
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3.

Australian Governors

In 1873 a surveyor, William Gosse, named a famous landmark after the Governor of South Australia. What was the Governor’s name?

Sir Henry Ayers

(the landmark was Ayer’s Rock, a.k.a. Uluru)
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4.

Crime fiction

Which well-known English author wrote a crime novel about a murder effected by the peal of the bells of Fenchurch St Paul’s church?

Dorothy L Sayers

(the novel was The Nine Tailors)
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5.

Origin of phrases

“Speak now or forever hold your peace”, “Till death us do part” and “Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust” are phrases which all originate from which 1549 publication?

The Book of Common Prayer
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6.

Stars

Who famously claimed that he “had more stars than there are in the heavens”?

Louis B Mayer

(of MGM)
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7.

Film heroes

Which famous fictional character has been represented on the big screen by Robert Donat, Kenneth More, Robert Powell and Rupert Penry-Jones?

Richard Hannay

(in The 39 Steps)
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8.

Footballers’ birthplaces

In which city was Florent Malouda the former Chelsea FC player born?

Cayenne

(in French Guiana)
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9.

UK newspapers

 Which UK newspaper has been edited by Eve Pollard and Amanda Platell and is currently edited by Martin Townsend?

Sunday Express
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10.

Mystery location

 Whose home is this?

Bayern Munich

(the Allianz Stadium in Munich)

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11.

TV series

In 1993 John Thaw and Lindsay Duncan starred in a TV series based on a book by Peter Mayle. What was it called?

A Year in Provence
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12.

Song lyrics

When would you regularly expect to hear these words sung: “We two have run about the slopes/and picked the daisies fine/but we’ve wandered many a weary foot/……….”?

Hogmanay

(it’s the third verse of Auld Lang Syne)
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13.

Historical incidents

What is the name of the incident in which Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and his lover were found dead in the Imperial hunting lodge in the Vienna Woods in 1889.  In 1968 it was the subject of a film starring Omar Sharif?

Mayerling incident
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14.

1970s US pop music

Who can you hear singing this duet with Diana Ross?   (click to play)

Marvin Gaye

(singing You Are Everything)
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15.

Animals

What is this?

Aye-aye
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