ROUND 1 - Announced theme - 'Mac Attack'

Each answer contains a name that starts 'Mac' or 'Mc'

1.

Which forename is shared by the woman who divorced Jeff Bezos in 2019 and the man who writes, directs and stars in BBC comedy series Detectorists?

2.

"There never was a cat of such deceitfulness and suavity."

Name the character from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T S Eliot described in this line.

3.

Name the annual lecture that is the centrepiece of the Edinburgh Television Festival.  It was last given by playwright James Graham in August 2024.

4.

Which university in Montreal, founded in 1821, has been described as the Harvard of Canada?

5.

Which general, descended from the High Kings of Ireland, was President of France from 1873 until 1879? (surname will suffice)

6.

Mr Bundy was US National Security Advisor from 1961 to 1966 under presidents Kennedy and Johnson.  What was his first name?

7.

In January 1986 two female astronauts died in the Challenger space shuttle disaster.  One was Judith Resnik, who was the other?

8.

Which Dutch footballer with 43 caps won the European golden boot in 2003 while playing for Deportivo La Coruna in Spain?

Sp1

What's the surname of Paddy, lead singer and main songwriter of popular music group Prefab Sprout?  Their first album was Swoon in 1984.

Sp2

In the 1960s and 70s Paul McCartney's brother performed in comedy group The Scaffold, famous for the hit song Lily the Pink.  What was his stage name?

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ROUND 2 - Announced theme

The bleak midwinter is here, so every answer has something of the night about it

1.

Name the Channel 4 comedy series set in a shop, featuring Dylan Moran and Bill Bailey which ran from 2000 until 2004.

2.

Which UK rock band had a 2003 hit with I Believe In a Thing Called Love?

3.

According to the online Urban Dictionary, throwing what is a popular slang term for being rude or insulting about another person?

4.

Which burly Bournemouth-born actor's film roles included Ernst Stavro Blofeld in Diamonds are Forever and Mycroft Holmes in the Seven Percent Solution?

5.

Which seven letter word can mean a faint suspicion - and also a member of an Oxford University discussion group in the 1930s and 40s including C S Lewis and J R R Tolkien?

6.

Which landlocked region of central Italy contains a stretch the River Tiber, Lake Trasimeno and the cities of Perugia and Assisi?

7.

What is the zoological term for animals that are not fully nocturnal, but mainly active during morning and evening twilight?

8.

Which two words complete the opening sentence from Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood?

"It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and..."?

Sp1

Which English athlete finished second behind Michael Johnson in the 400 metres final at the 1996 Olympics?

Sp2

What is the title of Leonard Cohen's 14th album, released 17 days before he died in 2016?

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ROUND 3 - Run-ons

Usual rules and caveats: contains soundalikes; ignore definite and indefinite articles

1.

American avant-garde rock singer with albums including Trout Mask Replica in 1969, real name Don van Vliet,

&

1899 novella about the horrors of imperialism by Joseph Conrad, set in central Africa.

2.

Capital city of the Sultanate of Oman in the Persian Gulf,

&

Roman poet 84 - 54 BC who now lends his name to Verona airport.

3.

New York-born actor who won the 1992 Best Actor Oscar for Scent of a Woman,

&

Saucy English stage farce, originally starring Michael Crawford, that ran for over six thousand performances in the West End from 1971.

4.

Pop single named after the American rockabilly band that took it to number 11 in the UK charts in 1981,

&

Fictional English county, the setting for a series of bawdy comedy novels including Riders by Jilly Cooper.

5.

The title Benjamin Disraeli took when he was ennobled in 1879,

&
Prize awarded at four yearly intervals to outstanding mathematicians under 40 by the International Mathematical Union.

6.

Taunton-born wicketkeeper-batsman who is currently captain of England's limited overs men's cricket teams,

&
Main town of the Shetland Islands.

7.

The UK's most inland port, situated on the River Ouse in East Yorkshire, 50 miles from the sea,

&
Type of sedimentary rock composed of egg-shaped grains less than 2 millimetres in diameter.

8.

The final game in each episode of Richard Osman's House of Games TV programme, with a run-on words format shamelessly purloined from the Withington Quiz League,

&
Museum of art and antiquities in Oxford that was Britain's first public museum when opened in 1678.

Sp.

Ancient semitic language spoken in Assyria and Babylonia until around 500 BC and preserved in cuneiform script on clay tablets,

&
English actor who died in 2024, best known as the butt of the immortal "Don't tell him your name is Pike" joke in Dad's Army.

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ROUND 4 - Announced theme

Each answer is a film with a compass point in its title

1.

Which 1999 film set in 1970s Salford told the story of George Khan’s struggle to impose traditional Pakistan values on his children who increasingly see themselves as British?

2.

Which 1973 science fiction film written and directed by Michael Crichton, takes place in an interactive amusement park containing lifelike androids?  Yul Brynner’s role as the Gunslinger was based on his character from the Magnificent Seven.

3.

Which 1960 film starring John Wayne and Stewart Granger was set during the Nome gold rush of 1899 to 1909?  Possibly the most memorable feature of this movie was the rousing theme song performed by Johnny Horton which reached the top 30 in the UK and topped the charts in Canada.

4.

Which 1946 musical comedy-drama film that combined live action and animation won an Oscar at the 20th Academy Awards for the best song: Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah?

5.

What was the 1958 musical film that provided Captain Sensible with a UK number one hit single in 1982? (remember, we want the film not the song)

6.

In which 1937 film do a famous duo perform a spirited rendition of the song: Trail of the Lonesome Pine?

7.

Which 1981 film directed by Walter Hill, told of a Louisiana National Guard unit which crosses some local Cajun folk in rural bayou country with deadly consequences?  It shares its name with a whisky liqueur, created in 1874 in New Orleans.

8.

Which 1922 silent film combined elements of documentary and docudrama?  It follows the struggles of the eponymous Inuk man and his family to survive in the Canadian Arctic.

Sp.

Based on a John Steinbeck novel, James Dean made his movie debut playing the role of Cal Trask in which 1955 Elia Kazan directed film?

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ROUND 5 - Hidden theme

Contains soundalikes

1.

The riff from Seven Nation Army by The White Stripes is a popular chant with football crowds everywhere, but which Austrian composer's fifth symphony provides the melody?

2.

Name the Brazilian former F1 racing driver who was runner-up in the 2002 and 2004 World Drivers Championship with Ferrari and won the Stock Car Pro Series in 2022.

3.

Which actress played the mother in the 1990 BBC dramatisation of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and voiced Miss Thripp in two Wallis and Gromit films.

4.

Which UK royal relative gained widespread tabloid publicity for the attractiveness of her bottom at Prince William's wedding in 2011, although she was pipped for The Rear of the Year title by Carol Vorderman?

5.

Which writer published an anonymous essay called A Modest Proposal in 1729, satirically suggesting eating children as a remedy for food shortages in Ireland?

6.

Which organisation, named after a former editor, has owned The Guardian newspaper since 1936 with a duty to protect its editorial independence.

7.

Which Wigan-born English Rugby Union player made his debut for Saracens in 2008 and now plays for Racing 92 in France?

8.

 In geoscience, what is the name for the layer of silicate rock, 2900 kilometres thick, that lies between the earth's crust and its outer core?

Sp1

Which US city is the state capital of South Dakota?

Sp2

Name the theatre company, founded in the 1870s to produce mainly Gilbert & Sullivan operas at London's Savoy Theatre.

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ROUND 6 - Announced theme - 'TAR very much'

Each answer contains the letters 'T-A-R' in that order consecutively

1.

What is the name of the evening meal with which Muslims break their fast during Ramadan?

2.

The US military air-dropped 2.4 million units of which apparently much-loved food product into Afghanistan during the 2001 invasion?

3.

Which Hilaire Belloc poem begins with the line:

“Do you remember an inn Miranda?  Do you remember an inn?”

It shares its name with a popular south Italian folk dance.

4.

Which painting, completed in June 1889, depicts a view from the east-facing window of an asylum room at Saint-Remy-de-Provence just before sunrise?

5.

Which 1980 UK number one single opens with the lines:

“It’s not important for you to know my name nor I to know yours”?

6.

Other than The Conqueror, what is the alternative, less flattering nickname commonly given to King William the First of England?

7.

The titular character of which Moliere play first performed in 1664, became a by-word in both French and English for a hypocrite who exaggeratedly feigns virtue, particularly religious virtue?

8.

Which fictional preparatory school included Nigel Molesworth and Basil Fotherington-Thomas among its pupils?

Sp1

Which 1968 film was the directorial debut of Peter Bogdanovitch?  It told of a mass shooting at a Californian drive-in movie theatre and featured Boris Karloff in one of his last roles.

Sp2

Which 1996 UK number one single includes the line:

“I’m the bitch you hated, filth infatuated, yeah.”?

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ROUND 7 - Announced theme - 'A Tour of the Northern Quarter'

Each answer contains the name of a street in or around Manchester’s Northern Quarter

1.

Born in Belfast in 1824, how is mathematician, physicist and president of The Royal Society William Thomson better known?

2.

This eminent German chemist jointly discovered Caesium and Rubidium but is best known for a piece of equipment found in every school laboratory.  Who is he? (both names needed)

3.

What do the initials in the acronym USDAW stand for?

4.

First created in 1968, which local brand’s logo is referred to as the cloverleaf?

5.

Which of the National Museums Liverpool is situated at Port Sunlight on The Wirral?

6.

7.

In Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize winning play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, what is the name of the character who is Big Daddy's son and Maggie's husband?

8.

Which variant of a card game is featured in all the world's marquee tournaments, including The World Series of Poker, The World Poker Tour and the European Poker Tour?

Sp1

Which Stockport-based band are currently on a sell-out tour of the UK accompanied by an eight foot fibreglass gorilla called Gary?  Gary is also the name of their fifth studio album.

Sp2

Which city is the capital of the German State of Lower Saxony?

Sp3

Who was the first of Elizabeth Taylor’s seven husbands?

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ROUND 8 - 'A Stream of One Hit Wonders'

Some pop/rock artists have one song which massively outperforms all their others in terms of streams on Spotify, making them a digital One Hit Wonder

1.

With nearly 600 million streams, this 1976 song's message is don't be scared of death.  It contains the lyric:

"40,000 men and women everyday (Romeo and Juliet)”.

The act could be described as Sad Seafood Sect.

2.

With almost 300 million streams this 1976 disco classic from a rock band contains the lyric:

"they were dancing and singing and moving to the grooving”.

The act could be described as Untamed Red Fruit.

3.

With over 710 million streams, this song released in 2000 is about adolescent angst. It contains the lyric:

“Listen to Iron Maiden baby”.

The act could be described as We Grain.

4.

With over 1.1 billion streams this 2006 song questions the state of the artist’s mental health. It contains the lyric:

“I remember, I remember when I lost my mind”.

The act's name is a play on a former basketball star.

5.

With 76 million streams this 1991 song is all about the artist’s self-aggrandisement.  It contains the lyric:

“Call me, call me by my name or call me by my number”.

The act's namesake is a character in Coronation Street.

6.

With nearly 30 million streams this 1969 song is a post-apocalyptic vision set 501 years in the future. It contains the lyric:

“You won’t need no husband, won’t need no wife. You’ll pick your son, your daughter too, from the bottom of a long glass tube”

 The act is Mister Zee and Mister E.

7.

With 260 million streams this 1974 disco classic celebrates oriental violence.  It contains the lyric:

“There were funky China men from funky Chinatown”.

The artist is initially a compact disc.

8.

With 544 million streams, this 1969 song takes you on a journey from your deathbed.  It contains the lyric:

 “Never been a sinner, I never sinned. I got a friend in Jesus”

The artist has something in common with William the Bastard.

Sp1

With 250 million streams this 1982 song encourages you to share your food, or maybe something less legal, with your neighbour.  It contains the lyric:

“It was a cool and lonely breezy afternoon (how does it feel when you got no food)”.

The act is tuneful but immature.

Sp2

With 256 million streams this 1990 disco classic concerns movement within a vital organ.  It contains the lyric:

“The chills that you spill up my back keeps me filled with satisfaction of what’s to come”.

The act is about misspelt enjoyment.

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ROUND 1 - Announced theme - 'Mac Attack'

Each answer contains a name that starts 'Mac' or 'Mc'

1.

Which forename is shared by the woman who divorced Jeff Bezos in 2019 and the man who writes, directs and stars in BBC comedy series Detectorists?

McKenzie

(Scott and Crook)

2.

"There never was a cat of such deceitfulness and suavity."

Name the character from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T S Eliot described in this line.

Macavity

3.

Name the annual lecture that is the centrepiece of the Edinburgh Television Festival.  It was last given by playwright James Graham in August 2024.

The McTaggart Lecture

4.

Which university in Montreal, founded in 1821, has been described as the Harvard of Canada?

McGill

5.

Which general, descended from the High Kings of Ireland, was President of France from 1873 until 1879? (surname will suffice)

Patrice de MacMahon

6.

Mr Bundy was US National Security Advisor from 1961 to 1966 under presidents Kennedy and Johnson.  What was his first name?

McGeorge

7.

In January 1986 two female astronauts died in the Challenger space shuttle disaster.  One was Judith Resnik, who was the other?

Christa McAuliffe

8.

Which Dutch footballer with 43 caps won the European golden boot in 2003 while playing for Deportivo La Coruna in Spain?

Roy Makaay

Sp1

What's the surname of Paddy, lead singer and main songwriter of popular music group Prefab Sprout?  Their first album was Swoon in 1984.

McAloon

Sp2

In the 1960s and 70s Paul McCartney's brother performed in comedy group The Scaffold, famous for the hit song Lily the Pink.  What was his stage name?

Mike McGear

ROUND 2 - Announced theme

The bleak midwinter is here, so every answer has something of the night about it

1.

Name the Channel 4 comedy series set in a shop, featuring Dylan Moran and Bill Bailey which ran from 2000 until 2004.

Black Books

2.

Which UK rock band had a 2003 hit with I Believe In a Thing Called Love?

The Darkness

3.

According to the online Urban Dictionary, throwing what is a popular slang term for being rude or insulting about another person?

(Throwing) Shade

4.

Which burly Bournemouth-born actor's film roles included Ernst Stavro Blofeld in Diamonds are Forever and Mycroft Holmes in the Seven Percent Solution?

Charles Gray

5.

Which seven letter word can mean a faint suspicion - and also a member of an Oxford University discussion group in the 1930s and 40s including C S Lewis and J R R Tolkien?

Inkling

6.

Which landlocked region of central Italy contains a stretch the River Tiber, Lake Trasimeno and the cities of Perugia and Assisi?

Umbria

7.

What is the zoological term for animals that are not fully nocturnal, but mainly active during morning and evening twilight?

Crepuscular

8.

Which two words complete the opening sentence from Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood?

"It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and..."?

Bible -black

Sp1

Which English athlete finished second behind Michael Johnson in the 400 metres final at the 1996 Olympics?

Roger Black

Sp2

What is the title of Leonard Cohen's 14th album, released 17 days before he died in 2016?

You Want It Darker

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Usual rules and caveats: contains soundalikes; ignore definite and indefinite articles

1.

American avant-garde rock singer with albums including Trout Mask Replica in 1969, real name Don van Vliet,

&

1899 novella about the horrors of imperialism by Joseph Conrad, set in central Africa.

Captain Beefheart

Heart of Darkness

2.

Capital city of the Sultanate of Oman in the Persian Gulf,

&

Roman poet 84 - 54 BC who now lends his name to Verona airport.

Muscat

Catullus

(Verona airport is called Villafranca or Valerio Catullo)

3.

New York-born actor who won the 1992 Best Actor Oscar for Scent of a Woman,

&

Saucy English stage farce, originally starring Michael Crawford, that ran for over six thousand performances in the West End from 1971.

Al Pacino

No Sex Please We're British

4.

Pop single named after the American rockabilly band that took it to number 11 in the UK charts in 1981,

&

Fictional English county, the setting for a series of bawdy comedy novels including Riders by Jilly Cooper.

Stray Cat Strut

Rutshire

5.

The title Benjamin Disraeli took when he was ennobled in 1879,

&
Prize awarded at four yearly intervals to outstanding mathematicians under 40 by the International Mathematical Union.

Earl of Beaconsfield

Fields Medal

6.

Taunton-born wicketkeeper-batsman who is currently captain of England's limited overs men's cricket teams,

&
Main town of the Shetland Islands.

Jos Butler

Lerwick

7.

The UK's most inland port, situated on the River Ouse in East Yorkshire, 50 miles from the sea,

&
Type of sedimentary rock composed of egg-shaped grains less than 2 millimetres in diameter.

Goole

Oolitic

8.

The final game in each episode of Richard Osman's House of Games TV programme, with a run-on words format shamelessly purloined from the Withington Quiz League,

&
Museum of art and antiquities in Oxford that was Britain's first public museum when opened in 1678.

Answer Smash

Ashmolean

Sp.

Ancient semitic language spoken in Assyria and Babylonia until around 500 BC and preserved in cuneiform script on clay tablets,

&
English actor who died in 2024, best known as the butt of the immortal "Don't tell him your name is Pike" joke in Dad's Army.

Akkadian

Ian Lavender

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ROUND 4 - Announced theme

Each answer is a film with a compass point in its title

1.

Which 1999 film set in 1970s Salford told the story of George Khan’s struggle to impose traditional Pakistan values on his children who increasingly see themselves as British?

East is East

2.

Which 1973 science fiction film written and directed by Michael Crichton, takes place in an interactive amusement park containing lifelike androids?  Yul Brynner’s role as the Gunslinger was based on his character from the Magnificent Seven.

Westworld

3.

Which 1960 film starring John Wayne and Stewart Granger was set during the Nome gold rush of 1899 to 1909?  Possibly the most memorable feature of this movie was the rousing theme song performed by Johnny Horton which reached the top 30 in the UK and topped the charts in Canada.

North to Alaska

4.

Which 1946 musical comedy-drama film that combined live action and animation won an Oscar at the 20th Academy Awards for the best song: Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah?

Song of the South

5.

What was the 1958 musical film that provided Captain Sensible with a UK number one hit single in 1982? (remember, we want the film not the song)

South Pacific

(the song is Happy Talk)

6.

In which 1937 film do a famous duo perform a spirited rendition of the song: Trail of the Lonesome Pine?

Way Out West

(the duo, of course, were Laurel & Hardy)

7.

Which 1981 film directed by Walter Hill, told of a Louisiana National Guard unit which crosses some local Cajun folk in rural bayou country with deadly consequences?  It shares its name with a whisky liqueur, created in 1874 in New Orleans.

Southern Comfort

8.

Which 1922 silent film combined elements of documentary and docudrama?  It follows the struggles of the eponymous Inuk man and his family to survive in the Canadian Arctic.

Nanook of the North

Sp.

Based on a John Steinbeck novel, James Dean made his movie debut playing the role of Cal Trask in which 1955 Elia Kazan directed film?

East of Eden

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ROUND 5 - Hidden theme

Contains soundalikes

1.

The riff from Seven Nation Army by The White Stripes is a popular chant with football crowds everywhere, but which Austrian composer's fifth symphony provides the melody?

Anton Bruckner

2.

Name the Brazilian former F1 racing driver who was runner-up in the 2002 and 2004 World Drivers Championship with Ferrari and won the Stock Car Pro Series in 2022.

Rubens Barrichello

3.

Which actress played the mother in the 1990 BBC dramatisation of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and voiced Miss Thripp in two Wallis and Gromit films.

Geraldine McEwan

4.

Which UK royal relative gained widespread tabloid publicity for the attractiveness of her bottom at Prince William's wedding in 2011, although she was pipped for The Rear of the Year title by Carol Vorderman?

Pippa Middleton

5.

Which writer published an anonymous essay called A Modest Proposal in 1729, satirically suggesting eating children as a remedy for food shortages in Ireland?

Jonathan Swift

6.

Which organisation, named after a former editor, has owned The Guardian newspaper since 1936 with a duty to protect its editorial independence.

The Scott Trust

7.

Which Wigan-born English Rugby Union player made his debut for Saracens in 2008 and now plays for Racing 92 in France?

Owen Farrell

8.

 In geoscience, what is the name for the layer of silicate rock, 2900 kilometres thick, that lies between the earth's crust and its outer core?

The mantle

Sp1

Which US city is the state capital of South Dakota?

Pierre

Sp2

Name the theatre company, founded in the 1870s to produce mainly Gilbert & Sullivan operas at London's Savoy Theatre.

D'Oyly Carte

Theme: Each answer contains the surname of a Booker Prize winning novelist ...

Anita Brookner 1984, Bernice Rubens 1970, Ian McEwan 1998, Stanley Middleton 1974, Graham Swift 1996, Paul Scott 1977, J G Farrell 1973, Hilary Mantel 2009, 2012, D B C Pierre 2003, Roddy Doyle 1993

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ROUND 6 - Announced theme - 'TAR very much'

Each answer contains the letters 'T-A-R' in that order consecutively

1.

What is the name of the evening meal with which Muslims break their fast during Ramadan?

Iftar

2.

The US military air-dropped 2.4 million units of which apparently much-loved food product into Afghanistan during the 2001 invasion?

Pop-Tarts

3.

Which Hilaire Belloc poem begins with the line:

“Do you remember an inn Miranda?  Do you remember an inn?”

It shares its name with a popular south Italian folk dance.

Tarantella

4.

Which painting, completed in June 1889, depicts a view from the east-facing window of an asylum room at Saint-Remy-de-Provence just before sunrise?

The Starry Night

(by Vincent Van Gogh)

5.

Which 1980 UK number one single opens with the lines:

“It’s not important for you to know my name nor I to know yours”?

Start!

(by The Jam)

6.

Other than The Conqueror, what is the alternative, less flattering nickname commonly given to King William the First of England?

William the Bastard

7.

The titular character of which Moliere play first performed in 1664, became a by-word in both French and English for a hypocrite who exaggeratedly feigns virtue, particularly religious virtue?

Tartuffe

8.

Which fictional preparatory school included Nigel Molesworth and Basil Fotherington-Thomas among its pupils?

St. Custard’s

Sp1

Which 1968 film was the directorial debut of Peter Bogdanovitch?  It told of a mass shooting at a Californian drive-in movie theatre and featured Boris Karloff in one of his last roles.

Targets

Sp2

Which 1996 UK number one single includes the line:

“I’m the bitch you hated, filth infatuated, yeah.”?

Firestarter

(by The Prodigy)

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Each answer contains the name of a street in or around Manchester’s Northern Quarter

1.

Born in Belfast in 1824, how is mathematician, physicist and president of The Royal Society William Thomson better known?

Lord Kelvin

2.

This eminent German chemist jointly discovered Caesium and Rubidium but is best known for a piece of equipment found in every school laboratory.  Who is he? (both names needed)

Robert Bunsen

3.

What do the initials in the acronym USDAW stand for?

Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers

4.

First created in 1968, which local brand’s logo is referred to as the cloverleaf?

The Co-op

5.

Which of the National Museums Liverpool is situated at Port Sunlight on The Wirral?

Lady Lever Art Gallery

(do not accept just 'Lever Art Gallery')

6.

Soap

7.

In Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize winning play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, what is the name of the character who is Big Daddy's son and Maggie's husband?

Brick

8.

Which variant of a card game is featured in all the world's marquee tournaments, including The World Series of Poker, The World Poker Tour and the European Poker Tour?

Texas Hold ’em

Sp1

Which Stockport-based band are currently on a sell-out tour of the UK accompanied by an eight foot fibreglass gorilla called Gary?  Gary is also the name of their fifth studio album.

Blossoms

Sp2

Which city is the capital of the German State of Lower Saxony?

Hanover

Sp3

Who was the first of Elizabeth Taylor’s seven husbands?

Conrad Hilton Jr

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ROUND 8 - 'A Stream of One Hit Wonders'

Some pop/rock artists have one song which massively outperforms all their others in terms of streams on Spotify, making them a digital One Hit Wonder

1.

With nearly 600 million streams, this 1976 song's message is don't be scared of death.  It contains the lyric:

"40,000 men and women everyday (Romeo and Juliet)”.

The act could be described as Sad Seafood Sect.

Don’t Fear the Reaper

by

Blue Oyster Cult

2.

With almost 300 million streams this 1976 disco classic from a rock band contains the lyric:

"they were dancing and singing and moving to the grooving”.

The act could be described as Untamed Red Fruit.

Play that Funky Music

by

Wild Cherry

3.

With over 710 million streams, this song released in 2000 is about adolescent angst. It contains the lyric:

“Listen to Iron Maiden baby”.

The act could be described as We Grain.

Teenage Dirtbag

by

Wheatus

4.

With over 1.1 billion streams this 2006 song questions the state of the artist’s mental health. It contains the lyric:

“I remember, I remember when I lost my mind”.

The act's name is a play on a former basketball star.

Crazy

by

Gnarls Barkley

5.

With 76 million streams this 1991 song is all about the artist’s self-aggrandisement.  It contains the lyric:

“Call me, call me by my name or call me by my number”.

The act's namesake is a character in Coronation Street.

The One and Only

by

Chesney Hawkes

6.

With nearly 30 million streams this 1969 song is a post-apocalyptic vision set 501 years in the future. It contains the lyric:

“You won’t need no husband, won’t need no wife. You’ll pick your son, your daughter too, from the bottom of a long glass tube”

 The act is Mister Zee and Mister E.

In the Year 2525

by

Zager and Evans

7.

With 260 million streams this 1974 disco classic celebrates oriental violence.  It contains the lyric:

“There were funky China men from funky Chinatown”.

The artist is initially a compact disc.

Kung Fu Fighting

by

Carl Douglas

8.

With 544 million streams, this 1969 song takes you on a journey from your deathbed.  It contains the lyric:

 “Never been a sinner, I never sinned. I got a friend in Jesus”

The artist has something in common with William the Bastard.

Spirit in the SkyNorman Greenbaum –

Sp1

With 250 million streams this 1982 song encourages you to share your food, or maybe something less legal, with your neighbour.  It contains the lyric:

“It was a cool and lonely breezy afternoon (how does it feel when you got no food)”.

The act is tuneful but immature.

Pass the Dutchie

by

Musical Youth

Sp2

With 256 million streams this 1990 disco classic concerns movement within a vital organ.  It contains the lyric:

“The chills that you spill up my back keeps me filled with satisfaction of what’s to come”.

The act is about misspelt enjoyment.

Groove is in the Heart

by

Deee-Lite

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