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29/04/2019

Take your partner

Each answer contains (often hidden) the name of a type of dance.

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1.

Kent

 Lying on the River Great Stour just 3 miles from the village of Ham, which Kent town was the arrival point for the Roman invasion of Britain in 43BC?

Sandwich
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2.

Folk and Blues

Which folk and blues singer can you hear singing this song?   (click to play)

Leadbelly

(singing Ain’t Gonna Study War No More)
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3.

Food

 Widely used as a staple food in South America what is the starch extracted from the cassava plant called?

Tapioca
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4.

The Times

 In 1997 an Early Day Motion in Parliament called on The Times not to abandon which long-running feature? The feature was saved and still appears weekly.

The Listener Crossword
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5.

Actors

Who is this actor?

Christopher Waltz

(here as the bounty hunter in Django Unchained)
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6.

1940s films

 Which film actor in 1942 famously said: “Round up the usual suspects”?

Claude Rains

(in Casablanca playing the role of Captain Louis Renault)
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7.

TV theme music

This music was used recently to introduce the BBC comedy W1A. However it was written much earlier for a TV show introduced by whom?   (click to play)

Johnny Morris

(presenter of Animal Magic)
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Football

At which current League One club did both Manchester United’s Tommy Taylor and Spurs’ Danny Blanchflower start their league careers?

Barnsley
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TV characters

 In a long-running TV sitcom what was the name of the commander of the Eastgate platoon?

Captain Square

(in Dad’s Army)
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10.

Missing face

 Who owns the missing face?

Paul Jones

(here with the Manfred Mann group)
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11.

Business

 Who is Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway?

Warren Buffett
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12.

Hornywink

 Green Plover, Peewit, or (in the West Country) Hornywink, are alternative names for which British bird?

Lapwing
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Film scores

 What is the name of this piece of music? It was the main inspiration for John Williams’ film score for both Superman and Saving Private Ryan.   (click to play)

Fanfare for the Common Man

(by Aaron Copeland)
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14.

Ethnicity

 How does former 100m World Record holder Donovan Bailey describe his ethnicity?

Jamaican-Canadian

(he was born in Jamaica but moved to Canada when aged 13)
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Poetry

  What word used to describe pastoral poetry also happens to be the title of this piano work by Gerald Finzi?   (click to play)

Eclogue
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