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    [I]1. What links the music for an aftershave advert and a horror film from the 1970s?

    A bit of a trick question as most people think they are the same piece of music, but no. 'Old Spice' - O Fortuna - is from Carl Orf's Carmina Burana, whereas Ave Satani was composed by Jerry Goldsmith specially for the film. Play them in separate windows and they sound nothing alike, but Old Spice is almost always used as a reference as it sounds more 'satanic' than the original. Or perhaps royalties are less.

    2.Where was Simon Cowell’s TV debut?

    About 30 years ago on Sale of the Century.

    3. Which European country produces the greatest variety of cheeses?

    The U.K.

    4. Which U.K. pub featured in a double-glazing advert?

    Tan Hill Inn

    5.Who sang the theme tune to accompany the film The Snowman?

    Peter Auty. Aled Jones had just won the Cerdd Dant so had a higher profile and recorded the cover version for release as the 45 RPM single, but didn’t sing on the film’s soundtrack.

    6. What word links the following: a pub typically attached to - or in close proximity to - a brewery, a rockumentary and Mr. Bojangles?

    Tap: Brewery Tap, This is Spinal Tap and the King of Tap-dancing.

    7. What word links a New Wave keyboardist and a former great wonder?

    Rhodes: Nick and The Colossus of

    8. What word links the world’s most famous pedestrian crossing, a place of worship in central London and a former glamour model (so to speak)?

    Abbey: Abbey Road crossing, Westminster Abbey and Abi Titmus.

    9. What word links a rock chick from the 1970s, a fruit-flavoured soft drink from the 1980s and an iconic car from a TV series set in the ‘80s?

    Quat[t]ro: Suzi Quatro, Quatro and Audi Quattro.

    10. What name links the loudest band in the galaxy and a chain of north London estate agents?

    Hotblack Desiato: A then Islington-only estate agent, which gladly lent its name to the frontman in Disaster Area, the loudest band in the galaxy featured in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Douglas Adams was living in Islington when he wrote it.

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    Ended up getting 2,3 ,6,7 and 8. Fooled by number 1 and annoyed I didn't get 9.
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    Just 4 (obviously), 5,6,7 and 8.

    I thought No1 may have been a pun Carl Orff and (Boris) Karloff.

    No3 - or how to upset the French . I shocked a Frenchman once by listing some UK cheeses as he'd of course only heard of Cheddar.

    Was Hotblack Desiato the one who was dead for a year for tax purposes?

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