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ART
1 Which artist used four available lengths and 10 standard colours?
2 Which artist hired a chatshow host to star in her latest work?
3 Whose 2006 retrospective included a painting called Paris With You?
4 Which artist, given a posthumous retrospective this year, lived on a
former fox farm in Bolton Landing?
5 Which artist has made a rich woman out of the leader of the Communist
Party of Britain?
6 Who painted The Common Meter of Precious Tissues?
7 Who (given a retrospective this year) reputedly passed out from standing
to draw all day long in his late eighties?
8 Where can you currently see this artist's film installations among cedars
and sequoias?
9 Which museum, containing a famous elephant and a famous Dali, reopened
this year?
10 PRIZE QUESTION: Who died, it was said, 'after a terminal battle with
disco dancing, indiscriminate fornication and above all drinking'?
THEATRE & DANCE
11 In which play were the Plastic People of the Universe celebrated?
12 Name the ballet in which the central character:
(a) goes shooting at night
(b) accidentally kills another member of a shooting party
(c) kills her parents
13 Who was recently appointed choreographer-in-residence at the Royal
Ballet?
14 Where did a tumble dryer sing?
15 Who recently described whom on stage as 'my beautiful bald Krishna'?
16 What did Kathleen Turner and Katie Mitchell have in common?
17 How does Silvia Tebrick surprise her husband in a recently revived
Rambert ballet?
18 Which theatre made itself deliberately homeless?
19 Name the ballet heroine who suffers from:
(a) a weak heart
(b) memory loss
(c) tuberculsis
20 PRIZE QUESTION: Which father and son became father and sons?
MUSIC
21 Arctic Monkeys' album title - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I Am
Not - comes from the dialogue in which British film of 1960?
22 Who are Kasabian named after?
23 A song off Thom Yorke's debut solo album, The Eraser, is called
'Harrowdown Hill'. To what event of 2003 does the song allude to?
24 Peaches Geldof forms half of which DJ duo?
25 Which rock icon's 2006 album featured lyrics that bore an uncanny
similarity to the work of obscure American Civil War poet Henry Timrod?
26 Which international star brought jazz back to London's Roundhouse in
November?
27 Which composers have been receiving centenary and 250th birthday
celebrations in 2006?
28 Name the director who flounced out of a Covent Garden production [La
Finta Giardiniera] after a row with conductor John Eliot Gardiner on the
first day of rehearsals.
29 Name the American soprano sacked by Covent Garden for being too fat in
2003 but rehired for this coming year after a gastric bypass operation.
30 PRIZE QUESTION: Which jazz saxophonist/rap artist released an album based
on a day in the life of a Birmingham tower block?
PICTURE PUZZLES
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POLITICS
36 Which candidate pulled out of the Liberal Democrat leadership race after
revelations about an affair with a rent boy?
37 In which country was David Cameron photographed with a team of huskies
watching glaciers melt?
38 On Celebrity Big Brother, George Galloway donned a pink leotard and
pretended to be a cat, drinking milk from the hand of which actress?
39 The 'cash for peerages' investigation was triggered when an MP complained
to police about honours being exchanged for party funding. What party was
that MP from?
40 Which of the following has not declared an interest in running for the
deputy leadership of the Labour party: Jack Straw, Charles Clarke, Harriet
Harman, Peter Hain, Alan Johnson?
41 What is Webcameron?
42 Which cabinet minister had his manhood compared to a cocktail sausage by
an ex-mistress?
43 Cherie Blair spoiled the party for Gordon Brown at the Labour conference.
How?
44 George Bush was picked up on a microphone at a summit greeting the Prime
Minister with a hearty 'Yo, Blair!' Where were they?
45 PRIZE QUESTION: Defence minister Tom Watson was a key player in the
Labour party coup to oust Tony Blair in September. When it was revealed he
had visited Gordon Brown at home in Scotland the day before the putsch was
launched, Watson denied they had talked politics. What did he claim was the
reason for his visit?
BOOKS
46 Which acclaimed novel began with a man's funeral and ended with his
death?
47 Who netted a record £5m book deal for their serialised memoirs?
48 What were the three Booker prize-nominated novels by the mother of this
year's winner?
49 Who's the odd one out: James Frey, Ian Mc-Ewan, JT LeRoy, Kaavya
Viswanathan?
50 Which novel featured a stutter nicknamed Hangman?
51 Who won a major literary prize and is also facing a spell in jail?
52 What links Poppy Shakespeare by Clare Allan, The Other Side of You by
Salley Vickers and The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell?
53 Which cult sci-fi novel became an animated film starring Keanu Reeves?
54 Who described David Cameron as 'a rich pretty boy who's pretending to
give a damn but doesn't really'?
55 PRIZE QUESTION: Which Shakespeare play was performed this year with a
cast of inch-high plastic ninjas?
FILM
56 Name these stars who died in 2006:
(a) A Canadian-born actor thrice entranced with Rita Hayworth on screen and
married to dancing star Eleanor Powell in real life.
(b) A former coal miner who began by making a corpse of Elisha Cooke Jr and
ended up making a man of Billy Crystal.
(c) The girl next door who was thrice the screen wife of James Stewart.
57 How did an Irish cereal come to be honoured with a Mediterranean frond?
58 Under what circumstances did a game bird share a shandy with a cock and
bull in a post-modern setting in Yorkshire?
59 In the year of the World Cup, in which films did:
(a) the camera never leave an alliterative superstar?
(b) a north London boy pray for England to be eliminated in the 1966 World
Cup?
(c) a Muslim girl dress as a man in an attempt to see a crucial World Cup
qualifying match?
60 Accentuate the diminutive. What word links
(a) a felonious black dwarf?
(b) a juvenile beauty talent contestant?
(c) a New England community with family problems?
61 Name the distinguished 20th--century British novels filmed this year in
which
(a) rival Victorian prestidigitators engage in lethal combat
(b) a licensed icon returned to to his literary origins
(c) an ennobled mystery writer went into un-characteristically
dystopian/apocalyptic mode.
62 Identify the numerically titled films in which
(a) a senior ranch hand takes a transgressor on a redemptive journey across
the Rio Grande
(b) a burnt-out cop escorts a black witness on a dangerous trip in Manhattan
(c) a young immigrant is drawn into a lethal game by the French underworld.
63 In which 2006 remakes were:
(a) a JB Priestley script for Alec Guinness transposed to New Orleans as a
vehicle for a female rapper?
(b) a Hong Kong thriller relocated to Boston for a belated collaboration
between two proteges of exploitation maestro Roger Corman?
(c) a horror flick about a Scottish male virgin reworked in Washington state
for an actor who in the same month starred as a 9/11 survivor?
64 Name the actors who, in 2006, played
(a) a chain-smoking liberal broadcaster
(b) a drug-addicted country musician
(c) the Greek-born nautical consort of a celebrated lover of dogs and horses
65 PRIZE QUESTION: What giant vegetable hovers over Woody Allen's Match
Point, Michael Caton-Jones's Basic Instinct 2, Ridley Scott's A Good Year
and Geoffrey Saxe's Stormbreaker?
SPORT AND FASHION
66 Name the boyfriend/husband of the following Wags:
a) Alex Curran
b) Melanie Slade
c) Elen Rives.
67 Only two tennis players beat Roger Federer this year. Rafael Nadal was
one, who was the other?
68 Which Welsh rugby star had a driving ban reduced after his lawyer argued
that his charity work with young children would be curtailed?
69 What was the name of the dance that England striker Peter Crouch
performed after scoring a goal?
70 Why did cricket umpire Darrell Hair become controversial in August?
71 Which fashion boss made the headlines when her company signed a deal with
Kate Moss, then announced that she was leaving the company shortly
afterwards?
72 Who helped dress Lindsay, Mischa, Keira, Kate and Cameron, but famously
fell out with Nicole towards the end of the year?
73 Name the A-list designers who set the tills ringing for the following
high-street stores:
a) Gap
b) Topshop
c) Hennes
74 Which glossy magazine first coined the term Wags at the start of the
World Cup?
75 PRIZE QUESTION: The Gladys, Stam and Emmy were all must-have fashion
items in 2006. But what were they?
PEOPLE
76 What in 2006 made Jeremy Paxman even more grumpy than usual?
77 Child star Abigail Breslin appeared in two acclaimed movies released this
year. What were they, and with whom did she co-star in each of them?
78 What did Essex girl Chantelle Houghton do for a living before she went
into the Celebrity Big Brother house?
79 What habit made David Gest just a little unpopular with the other
contestants in this year's I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here?
80 2006 was the year in which the newspapers finally got hold of a painting
of a nude young Cherie Blair by which painter?
81 What battle did Cliff Richard lose in 2006?
82 Which tabloid columnist chickened out of being crucified in 2006, and why
was he even considering it in the first place?
83 What links Fantabulosa!, the BBC4 film about Kenneth Williams, the film
The Queen, and the play Frost/Nixon?
84 Which famous comic sidekick has been given his own show on BBC6Music -
and where did this person begin their career as a DJ?
85 PRIZE QUESTION: Who did David Cameron admit to fancying, and what was her
response?
ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN
86 What is the biggest land sale in the history of UK property, which has
developers in a feeding frenzy ?
87 Which car did US research prove to be the most environmentally sound?
88 Which global architectural celebrity was not asked back when his landmark
designs needed refurbishment?
89 Why do Notting Hill residents call David Cameron Propellor Head?
90 PRIZE QUESTION: How many major buildings is Norman Foster planning in
Kazakhstan?
TV
91 Which 2006 reality star's 'autobiography' is entitled Living the Dream:
My Story? And whose is called simply My Story?
92 Who adapted this year's Jane Eyre?
(a) Andrew Davies
(b) Sandy Welch
(c) Paul Abbott (under a pseudonym)
And (for a bonus point) which 2004 BBC historical adaptation was also their
work?
93 Which soap star went to Heaven in his pyjamas on his favourite street?
94 Who won The X Factor?
95 BBC1's hit drama Life on Mars starred John Simm as
(a) DS Sam Taylor
(b) DCI Sam Rider
(c) DI Sam Tyler.
96 In the last episode of the current series of Spooks, Adam and Ros (Rupert
Penry-Jones and Hermione Norris) were, in the line of duty, both nearly:
(a) burned alive
(b) hanged
(c) drowned.
97 The real name of Kate (Evangeline Lilly) from Lost has recently been
revealed to be:
(a) Monica
(b) Marcia
(c) Melinda.
98 Who won Team of the Year in the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year?
99 At this year's Baftas, who won the Dennis Potter Award (for outstanding
writing for television)?
100 PRIZE QUESTION: How long did it take the Planet Earth team to capture
footage of the shy Mongolian gazelle?
(a) A year
(b) Two years
(c) Three years.
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