Showquizness Act 2

1 Which film earned Burt Lancaster his only Oscar?

2 Which black TV comedy is set at Scared Heart Hospital?

3 Which TV series had the original working title of Ford Granada?

4 Which singer with an alliterative stage name was born Graham Pulleybank?

5 What connects the groups that recorded the songs Wind of Change, Black Betty and We Are Detective?

6 Who played the role of Gigolo Joe in the film A.I?

7 Which cartoon character is modelled on a pileated species of bird?

8 Which duo have the real surnames of Mead and McGuinness?

9 Which actor died in the year 2000 after being killed 8 times in a 1948 film?

10 Who can take a sunrise and sprinkle it with dew?

11 Which TV series of yesteryear was inspired by the film The Dirty Dozen and featured characters called Chief, Actor and Casino?

12 Which American sitcom had the working title Across the Hall?

13 What links the songs Oh Babe What Would You Say, Men In Black and Because the Night?

14 Which TV character is descended from Great Grandfather Blob?

15 Which 1958 Lerner and Loewe musical collected nine Oscars?

16 What links the films Ryan’s Daughter, Whistle Down the Wind and The Other Sister?

17 Louis Winthorpe III and Billy Ray Valentine are the two lead characters in which film?

18 Which was the first animated pop group to top the UK singles charts?

19 Which feline puppet accompanied the ventriloquist Terry Hall?

20 What year did Sam Tyler travel back to in Life On Mars?

Answers

1 Elmer Gantry

2 Scrubs

3 Life On Mars

4 Leapy Lee

5 Signs of the zodiac, Scorpions, RAM Jam and Thompson TWINS

6 Jude Law

7 Woody Woodpecker

8 Little and Large

9 Alec Guinness

10 The Candy Man

11 Garrison’s Guerrillas

12 Friends

13 All sung by Smiths, Hurricane, Will and Patti

14 Uncle Fester

15 Gigi

16 All starred members of the Mills family, John, Hayley and Juliet respectively

17 Trading Places

18 The Archies with Sugar Sugar

19 Lenny the Lion

20 1973