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28/12/2015

Fruits

15 General Knowledge questions indexed by subject matter.  Each answer includes the name of a fruit.  Make your choice.

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1.

Football managers

Which former Leeds United player and England captain was manager of Bradford City at the time of the Valley Parade fire tragedy in 1985?

Trevor Cherry
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2.

Local businesses

Which successful local business, owned and run by Patrick Hannity, has been trading since 1987?

The Lime Tree restaurant on Lapwing Lane
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3.

Contemporary pop music

Who can you hear singing this song from his album At Least For Now?  (click to play)

Benjamin Clementine

(Condolence)
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4.

Pottery

What style is this earthenware bowl?

Satsuma ware
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5.

Stage names

Stand-up comedian Leigh Francis from Leeds is better known by which stage name?

Keith Lemon
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6.

Political leaders

Which political leader was both preceded and succeeded by an Ehud?

Ariel Sharon

(Prime Minister of Israel; preceded by Ehud Barak and succeeded by Ehud Olmert)
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7.

Photographers

This self-portrait is by which famous American photographer?

Robert Mapplethorpe
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8.

Mozart operas

From which Mozart opera does this music come?  (click to play)

The Marriage of Figaro

(by Mozart)
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9.

US Presidents

Presidents Andrew Johnson in 1868, and Bill Clinton in 1998, have what in common?

They were the only two US Presidents to be impeached
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10.

Botany

What is this flower?

Plumbago
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11.

1980s novels

What was the name of the 1985  ‘coming-of-age’ novel about a lesbian girl growing up in a Pentecostal community?  It was based on the author’s own experiences in Accrington.

Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit

(by Jeanette Winterson)
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12.

Bizet operas

This famous operatic duet (Au Fond Du Temple Saint) sung here by Pavarotti and Ghiaurov comes from which Bizet opera?  (click to play)

The Pearl Fishers
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13.

Marsupials

What’s this small member of the macropod family of marsupials called?

Pademelon
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14.

Peter Noone

Peter Noone of 1960s pop group Herman’s Hermits played the character Stanley in a TV soap opera.  Which actor played Stanley’s father?

Peter Adamson

(playing Len Fairclough in Coronation Street)
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15.

Agatha Christie

In many of Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot novels Poirot had a friend who wrote mystery novels – a character clearly based on Christie herself.  What was the character’s name?

Ariadne Oliver
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