Out of the Blue

1 Who played the mother of Elvis Presley in the film Blue Hawaii?

2 Whose album True Blue topped the charts in 28 different countries?

3 In which 1983 film did Roy Scheider play the pilot of a hi tech helicopter?

4 Which group recorded the album Blue is the Colour?

5 In which TV drama did Griff Rhys Jones play the character of Cornelius Carrington?

6 In 1866 who painted Man in a Blue Cap?

7 In what year was the children’s TV show Blue Peter first screened?

8 Pupils at which English public school are known as Bluecoats?

9 What is the heraldic term for blue?

10 Which film saw Brooke Shields on a remote island with Christopher Atkins?

11 The bluebird is recognised as the international symbol for what?

12 Don’t Fear the Reaper was the biggest hit single for which rock band?

13 Which Star Wars movie had a working title of Blue Harvest?

14 Who played Joyce Davenport in Hill Street Blues?

15 Who stayed in a Blue Hotel in the 1991 pop charts?

16 What did Eddie Cochran believe “there ain’t no cure for”?

17 Which film provided the inspiration for the TV series Dixon of Dock Green?

18 Madeline Bell and Roger Cook provided vocals for which pop group?

19 Which glam rockers recorded the album Old New Borrowed and Blue?

20 Which city is home to the Sultan Ahmed Mosque, known in the west as the Blue Mosque?

21 Which singer was backed in the 60s by the Blue Flames?

22 Which song opens with the line, “How does it feel to treat me like you do”?

23 Which group’s Out of the Blue album included the track Wild West Hero?

24 What was the first chart topping single for the boy band blue?

25 How did the expression blue movies derive?

Answers to Out of the Blue

1 Angela Lansbury
2 Madonna
3 Blue Thunder
4 Beautiful South
5 Porterhouse Blue
6 Paul Cezanne
7 1958
8 Charterhouse
9 Azure
10 The Blue Lagoon
11 Happiness
12 Blue Oyster Cult
13 Return of the Jedi
14 Veronica Hamel
15 Chris Isaak
16 Summertime Blues
17 The Blue Lamp
18 Blue Mink
19 Slade
20 Istanbul
21 Georgie Fame
22 Blue Monday by New Order
23 ELO
24 Too Close
25 Film censors pencils were originally blue