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A music quiz this time. Here are 10 extracts from the lyrics of songs released over the past 50 years. There are 2 each from each decade from the sixties to the noughties, in chronological order. Just name the song, artist and if you’re really clever the year of release!
- Q. “I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth”
- Q. “Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come”
- Q. “Took all the trees and put ‘em in a tree museum and charged the people a dollar and a half just to see ‘em”
- Q. “Sup up your beer and collect your fags, There’s a row going on down near Slough”
- Q. “Bless my cotton socks I’m in the news!”
- Q. “You can’t start a fire, you can’t start a fire without a spark, this gun’s for hire...”
- Q. “Backbeat the word was on the street that the fire in your heart is out”
- Q. “Things are getting strange, I’m starting to worry”
- Q. “What’s that coming over the hill?”
- Q. “I used to rule the world, seas would rise when I gave the word”
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A “metallic” theme this time (hopefully obvious when you read the questions)!
- Q. How many gold medals did (Sir) Chris Hoy win at the Beijing Olympics?
- Q. Which comic character had a dog called Snowy and was assisted by Captain Haddock?
- Q. Which metal is extracted from bauxite?
- Q. What connects Tony Stark and Robert Downey Jr?
- Q. Which Music Hall song features the lines “You look neat. Talk about a treat! You look so dapper from your napper to your feet”?
- Q. Joanna Lumley played “Sapphire”, but who played “Steel”?
- Q. Which other metal is added to steel to make stainless steel?
- Q. In which 1980s TV comedy series did Timothy West play the despotic Bradley Hardacre?
- Q. What links the Lone Ranger’s horse and a film starring Gene Wilder and Richard Prior?
- Q. Copper and tin are the main constituents of which alloy?
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A numerical theme this time! Either the question or the answer (or both) has a number in it.
- Q. “I am not a number!” What was his number?
- Q. Which Chicago song might be called “3.35 am or 3.34 am”?
- Q. What is the British name for the card game which originated in France as “vingt-et-un”?
- Q. In order of cinema release, what was the name of the second Star Wars film?
- Q. What was the name of Led Zeppelin’s third album?
- Q. What is the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury?
- Q. In which film did Betty Lou Gerson play (sort of) the villainess in the 1961 original and Glenn Close in the 1996 remake?
- Q. What number connects an ice cream and some red balloons?
- Q. What connects the IV, XIV and XXX Olympiads?
- Q. If you subtract the number of Lawrence’s Pillars of Wisdom from the number of John Buchan’s Steps and then divide by the number between 18 and 13 on a dart board, what is the answer?
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You may have noticed there were the Olympic Games in the summer of 2012. Here are a few questions to test whether it’s a forgotten memory!
- Q. The colours of the Olympic rings are blue, yellow, green, red and what other colour?
- Q. What was the name of the company that failed to recruit enough security staff and so the army had to be called in?
- Q. Which “Great Briton” did Kenneth Branagh play at the Opening Ceremony?
- Q. What was Anish Kapoor’s main contribution to the Olympic Park
- Q. What was the O2 arena renamed for the Games?
- Q. Which sports took place at the Copper Box?
- Q. Jessica Ennis won the heptathlon gold medal but which other UK women have won Olympic gold in this event (and its predecessor the pentathlon)?
- Q. Which BBC presenter is credited with suggesting the “Mobot” celebration to Mo Farah?
- Q. Which English County would have finished 12th in the medals table had it been an independent country?
- Q. Seb Coe famously won gold medals at successive Olympics in 1980 and 1984. However what was the event in which he “only” won 2 silvers but for which he was the world record holder for 17 years and is still the British record holder?