Twenty six questions to test your knowledge.
- Best known for his novel "Doctor Zhivago" and who refused the Nobel Prize for Literature?
- One of the possible origins of the name of which dance is from a word meaning ‘rubbing navels together’?
- Who wrote "The Witches of Eastwick"?
- The eoli and the morlocks feature in which book by H.G. Wells?
- 'No Line on the Horizon' is a 2009 album by which group?
- Which lady is credited with creating Rupert Bear?
- Which mass murderer was the subject of the film '10 Rillington Place'?
- Alas! Poor Yorick! I knew him …… the next Shakespearean word please?
- Verdi’s opera 'Aida' is set in which country?
- Under which name did Leonard Sly become famous?
- What was the first name of Capt. Mainwaring in Dad’s Army?
- Who was the last member of the Beatles (just the Fab Four) to marry?
- Which literary title character lived on Grimpen Mire?
- What Ballet tells the story of Franz who falls in love with mechanical doll believing her to be a real woman?
- Which Italian artist painted 'Head of Medusa'?
- The song 'You must love me' has won an Oscar for best original song - it comes from what musical ?
- English poet Shelley was born in which West Sussex town/city?
- What song written in 1953 by American George Cory, very popular with crooners, starts with the line 'The loveliness of Paris seems somehow
sadly gay'? - Which English artist lived at Schomberg House, 80 Pall Mall, London from 1774 until he died there in 1788?
- What did Peter Fluck and Roger Law bring to our television screens in 1984?
- Which famous concert venue is situated on 7th Avenue, New York, two blocks South of Central Park?
- Who was the first black/coloured performer to top the UK singles chart?
- Susan Boyle has released her first single 'Wild Horses' but who wrote and recorded it originally?
- Launcelot Gobbo was servant to whom?
- Frank Sinatra’s 'My Way' is credited to two composers, Claude Francois and who?
- Which composer's 4th symphony is called 'Tragic?'
ANSWERS
- Boris Pasternak
- Samba
- John Updike
- The Time Machine
- U2
- Mary Tourtel
- John Christie
- Horatio
- Egypt
- Roy Rogers
- George
- Paul McCartney
- The Hound Of The Baskervilles
- Coppelia
- Caravaggio
- Evita
- Horsham
18.'I left my heart in San Francisco' - Thomas Gainsborough
- Spitting Image
- Carnegie Hall
- Winifred Atwell
- Rolling Stones
- Shylock
- Paul Anka
- Schubert
