Entertainment Quiz 1
1. In which Carla lane sitcom did Nicholas Lyndhurst play Wendy Craig's son?
2. Name the film that tells the true-life story of John Forbes Nash, a brilliant mathematician who became a paranoid schizophrenic?
3. Who was the original question master in the BBC quiz show university challenge?
4. Which film, starring Albert Finny was set in Nottingham in the 1960?s?
5. What occupation did Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich all leave to become a band?
6. Set in Larkhall prison, which TV drama began a new series recently?
7. Which singer and keyboard player was in Depeche mode, Erasure, The Assembly and Yazoo?
8. The film What?s Love Got To Do With It was a biopic of which singer?
9. Reggie Perrin?s boss was known by which two initials?
10. Singer Sophie Ellis Bextor is the daughter of which former Blue Peter presenter?
11. Berry Gordy jnr. founded which record label?
12. Name the actor who played Budgie?
13. Who began life as Robert Zimmerman?
14. Name the two stars of grafters?
15. Who played lt. Jordan O?Neil in the film GI Jane?
16. How many academy awards did the English patient win?
17. Who first asked Bernie for the bolt?
18. Who played the role of Barbwire?
19. Who is the male presenter on tomorrow?s world?
20. Which Mike Oldfield album was the first album to be released on virgin records in 1973?
ANSWERS
1. Butterflies
2. A beautiful mind
3. Bamber Gascoigne
4. Saturday night and Sunday morning
5. Police
6. Bad girls
7. Vince Clark
8. Tina Turner
9. CJ
10. Janet Ellis
11. Motown
12. Adam Faith
13. Bob Dylan
14. Stephen Tompkinson and Robson Green
15. Demi Moore
16. 9
17. Bob Mmonkhouse
18. Pamela Anderson Lee
19. Peter Snow
20. Tubular Bells