Capital Ideas
The following questions all contain the name of a capital city in the answer

1 What was the title of the second film in which Michael Caine played the spy Harry Palmer?

2 Which singers biggest chart hit came courtesy of the 1998 song, My One Temptation?

3 Who was the first African American actor to win two acting Oscars?

4 Which song topped the charts for Simple Minds in 1989?

5 In 1979, Genestier and Terbiaut became the first winners of which race?

6 Which was the first football club to win the European Cup?

7 Which song opens with the line, “The light seems to fade, but the moonlight lingers on”?

8 Who wrote the novel White Fang?

9 In a 1968 hit, Dionne Warwick asked for directions to which city?

10 The title of which Shakespeare play ends with the name of a capital city?

11 What name is given to the dish of rolled chicken fillet filled with herb butter and fried until crisp?

12 What nickname was given to the boxing bout contested by Ali and Frazier in the Araneta Coliseum?

13 Which song contains the line, “like the windmill keeps on turning”?

14 Which private investigator created by Marvin H Albert was played in a 1967 film by Frank Sinatra?

15 Which was the only film of the 20th century to win Best Film Oscar that contains the name of a capital city in its title?

16 Which novel by Graham Greene features a vacuum cleaner salesman called Jim Wormold?

17 What name is given to the syndrome whereby hostages develop a loyalty towards their captors?

18 Which song a hit for Murray Head features in the musical Chess?

19 In which film did Charlton Heston play General Gordon?

20 Who did Rod Stewart marry in April 1979?

21 What is the name of Rigsby’s cat in Rising Damp?

22 Which breed of dog was named after the capital of Tibet?

23 Which song contains the line, “and did those feet in ancient time”?

24 Which of the Wombles wears a school cap and glasses?

25 Who played the role of Mary Corleone in The Godfather Part III?

ANSWERS

1 Funeral in Berlin
2 Mica Paris
3 Denzel Washington
4 Belfast Child
5 Paris to Dakar Rally
6 Real Madrid
7 Kingston Town
8 Jack London
9 Do You Know the Way to San Jose?
10 Timon of Athens
11 Chicken Kiev
12 The Thriller in Manila
13 Tulips from Amsterdam
14 Tony Rome
15 An American in Paris
16 Our Man in Havana
17 Stockholm Syndrome
18 One Night in Bangkok
19 Khartoum
20 Alana Hamilton
21 Vienna
22 Lhasa Apso
23 Jerusalem
24 Wellington
25 Sofia Coppola