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28/10/2019

The Sound of Musicians

 15 General Knowledge questions indexed by subject matter.  Each answer contains a word or part-word that sounds like a composer’s name.  Make your choice.  Make your choice.

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1.

Catchphrases

When asked a seemingly innocent question by an interviewer in a vox pop what 8-word reply did busty peroxide blonde Mandy habitually give?

“Ooh, you are awful ... but I like you!”

(Mandy was one of Dick Emery’s comic characters)
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2.

1930s novels

Which 1930s novel satirizing the ‘bright young things’ of a decadent London society after World War 1 features anti-hero Adam Fenwick-Symes?

Vile Bodies

(by Evelyn Waugh)
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3.

Underground

Which station name is missing?

Barking
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4.

1980s US singers

Which Californian can you hear singing this?  (click to play)

Suzanne Vega

(singing Marlene on the Wall)
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5.

Horror films

Which 2005 American horror film directed by John Polson starred Robert De Niro and Dakota Fanning?

Hide and Seek
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6.

Manchester listed buildings

Which Grade II listed building stands at the intersection of Great Bridgewater Street and Albion Street?

Briton's Protection

(the pub)
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7.

British Isles

What is the most easterly settlement of the British Isles?

Lowestoft
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8.

Lord Palmerston

Of what is Lord Palmerston reported to have said:

“Only three people have ever really understood this question: the Prince Consort, who is dead, a German professor, who has gone mad and I, who have forgotten all about it.”

The Schleswig-Holstein Question
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9.

TV themes

         Whose voice can you hear?  (click to play)

Frankie Laine

(singing the theme from US Western  show Champion the Wonder Horse)
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10.

1960s pop music

Keith Relf, Jim McCarty, Chris Dreja and Paul Samwell-Smith were among the members of which 1960s band?

The Yardbirds
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11.

Oswald Mosley

The peer Sir Oswald Mosley inherited which title?

Baron Ancoats
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12.

Periodicals

Which British magazine was published between 1929 and 1991? Its famous crossword survives and is published weekly in The Times.

The Listener
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13.

Postage stamps

What is the common name of the fish shown on this Faroes Islands stamp?

Sticklebacks
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14.

Charles I

In which castle was Charles I incarcerated immediately prior to his trial?

Carisbrooke Castle
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15.

Unlikely 'bedfellows'

What have Wyatt Earp, Joseph Stalin, William Taft, Friedrich Nietzsche and Jimmy Edwards all got in common?

They all sported handlebar moustaches
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