OK for the UK

The answers to the following questions all contain a place name in the British Isles

1 Who played Raquel Watts in Coronation Street?

2 Who wrote the novel The Moon and Sixpence?

3 Whose stage name is The Great Soprendo?

4 Who wrote the novel A Woman of Substance?

5 Who sailed around the globe in the Gypsy Moth?

6 Which song contains the lyric, “parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme”?

7 Whose comic creations include Tim Nice But Dim and Gary Bloke?

8 Which DJ played the first record on Radio One?

9 Which group recorded the albums Rumours and Tusk?

10 Which duo were killed in an FBI ambush on May 23, 1934?

11 Who delivered the Gettysburg Address?

12 Which operetta includes the character of Major General Stanley?

13 Who did Alan Rickman play in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves?

14 Which singer topped the charts in the 70s with the song Hold Me Close?

15 What is cockney rhyming slang for hair?

16 What eight words introduced the TV game show The Sale of the Century?

17 Which player scored the fifth and winning goal in the 1979 FA Cup final?

18 Who made her Carry On debut in Carry On Spying playing Daphne Honeybutt?

19 Who fronted the Tremeloes on the song Do You Love Me?

20 Who played Dirty Den in Eastenders?

21 Which 1976 film saw Clint Eastwood on the run from Union soldiers?

22 Which Englishman was nicknamed the Colossus of Roads?

23 Who played the role of Phillip in Rising Damp?

24 Which singer had UK top ten hits in the 1960s with Secret Love and Let Me Go Lover?

25 Which former dictator of Malawi died in November 1997?

ANSWERS

1 Sarah Lancashire
2 Somerset Maugham
3 Geoffrey Durham
4 Barbara Taylor Bradford
5 Francis Chichester
6 Scarborough Fair
7 Harry Enfield
8 Tony Blackburn
9 Fleetwood Mac
10 Bonnie and Clyde
11 Abraham Lincoln
12 The Pirates of Penzance
13 The Sheriff of Nottingham
14 David Essex
15 Barnet Fair
16 From Norwich it’s the quiz of the week
17 Alan Sunderland
18 Barbara Windsor
19 Brian Poole
20 Leslie Grantham
21 The Outlaw Josey Wales
22 Thomas Telford
23 Don Warrington
24 Kathy Kirby
25 Hastings Banda