Clayheads 10-Question Quiz (4th January 2009)

1. Which singer was known as “The Big O”?

2. Which team did Bill Shankly say was “the second best team on Merseyside”?

3. What is the name of Winston’s wife in George Orwell’s ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’?

4. Who, according to a nursery rhyme, “could eat no fat”?

5. Which Birmingham-born comedian was the subject of the first ITV ‘An Audience With…’ show in 1978?

6. Which TV production company was established by Prince Edward in 1993?

7. In which Lancashire town is Moorhouse’s Brewery based?

8. Who starred alongside Nigel Bruce (who portrayed Dr. Watson) in the Sherlock Holmes films from 1939 to 1946?

9. What links the jockey David Nicholson with the actor John Wayne?

10. Vaudeville artist Alvin “Shipwreck” Kelly specialised in what form of act, which spawned a fad and series of imitators in 1920s America?

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1. Roy Orbison
2. Liverpool Reserve Team
3. Katharine
4. Jack Sprat
5. Jasper Carrot
6. Argent
7. Burnley
8. Basil Rathbone
9. The Duke (nicknames)
10. Flagpole Sitting