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29/06/2015

Europe is Capital!

Each answer starts with a 4 letter string that also starts the name of an EU Capital City – no string is used more than once.

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1.

Renaissance music

What type of music is this?  (click to play)

Madrigal

(April is in my Mistress’ Face by Thomas Morley)

Madrid

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2.

Town planning

Which renowned 20th century UK town planner published the highly influential report Traffic in Towns in 1963?

Sir Colin Buchanan

Bucharest

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3.

Greater Manchester

Chess Grandmaster, Nigel Short, grew up in which Greater Manchester colliery town, formerly known as Chowbent?

Atherton

Athens

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4.

Musical parodies

This is the Chorus by Morris Minor and the Majors, and Kylie is So Lucky (written for the TV show Spitting Image), were both parodies of which musical trio?

Stock Aitken Waterman

Stockholm

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5.

15th century history

What started midway between the A1(M) and the M1 in 1455 and ended in 1487 midway between the M1, M6 and M42?

Wars of the Roses

Warsaw

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6.

1980s cinema

Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, Demi Moore, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, and Ally Sheedy are collectively known as what?

Brat Pack

Bratislava

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7.

Famous Durhamites

Born in Durham in 1980, for what is Neil Fingleton celebrated?

Tallest living British person

(7 foot 7.5 inches)

Tallinn

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8.

UK Local Government

In which UK Local Government district is England’s highest mountain, Scafell Pike?

Copeland

(in Cumbria)

Copenhagen

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9.

Football

Where was Football Club Chairman, Stafford Heginbotham, on May 11th 1985?

Valley Parade

(Bradford City’s home ground where 56 supporters died in a fire on that day in 1985)

Valletta

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10.

TV comedy

What is the surname of the actress who plays Anna Rampton, Head of Better at the BBC, in the acclaimed TV comedy show W1A?

Parish

(Sarah Parish)

Paris

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11.

Film theme music

To which 1968 Franco Zeffirelli film is this the theme?  (click to play)	

Romeo and Juliet

Rome

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12.

Philosophy

Charles Sanders Peirce, William James and John Dewey were the founding fathers of which 19th/20th century philosophical movement?

Pragmatism

Prague

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13.

Cruise ship crooner

This cruise ship crooner went on to become famous in a totally different field. What is his surname?

Berlusconi

(Silvio Berlusconi, former Italian President)

Berlin

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14.

Pasta

What’s the name of this type of pasta?

Rigatoni

Riga

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15.

World leaders

Who is this future world leader?

Nicolas Sarkozy

Nicosia

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