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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Bowler hats. Ultra-violence. Beethoven's 'Ninth Symphony'. Book published 1962.	A Clockwork Orange	60%
A 'Golden Girl' actress.	Betty White	60%
British comedy series. Characters - Prince Edmund, Lord Melchett, Lord Percy Percy, Captain Darling, Prince George, Lord Flashheart.	Blackadder	60%
Name given to murder victim Elizabeth Short by the press. Murdered and mutilated in Los Angeles in 1947. Case unsolved.	Black Dahlia	60%
'The Pestilence'. 'The Great Mortality'.	Black Death	60%
Stephen Hawking study subject.	Black Holes	60%
Card game also known as '21' or 'pontoon'.	Black Jack	60%
Most popular seaside resort in the UK.	Blackpool	60%
French actress. Played Vesper Lynd in 'Casino Royale' 2006.	Eva Green	60%
Famous bridge. Yeah, yeah. Would you like to see more?	Golden Gate Bridge	60%
"No, Mister Bond. I expect you to die!"	Goldfinger	60%
1984 Bruce Springsteen song. 1989 Clint Eastwood movie. Both about a make of car. In the Springsteen song it also a metaphor for a woman's...	Pink Cadillac	60%
Roger Waters, Dave Gilmour et al.	Pink Floyd	60%
1986 teenage romantic-comedy. Molly Ringwald, Andrew McCarthy.	Pretty in Pink	60%
Answer - "... is people!"	Soylent Green	60%
Inspector Jacques Clouseau.	The Pink Panther	60%
Fictional TV character. A 'chemist'.	Walter White	60%
Captain Ahab's nemesis.	White whale	60%
Defoliant of Vietnam War fame.	Agent Orange	40%
1908 childrens' novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery.	Anne of Green Gables	40%
1887 novel. First appearance of Sherlock Holmes. (Is it banned in Utah, USA I wonder?)	A Study in Scarlet	40%
US singer. Soul, R&B, funk, disco.	Barry White	40%
Deadly African reptile. Second longest venomous snake.	Black Mamba	40%
Police van for transporting prisoners. Etymology unknown.	Black Maria	40%
Alannah Myles song about Elvis Presley. Also a mixed drink of stout and sparkling, white wine (usually Guinness and Champagne).	Black Velvet	40%
1866 waltz composed by Johann Strauss about a 1,770 mile long river in Europe. Second longest in the continent.	Blue Danube	40%
1980 movie about two children and a cook shipwrecked on an island in a tropical paradise. Poisonous berries. The female lead's performance did not impress the critics. Not far behind her, in their view, was the performance of the male lead. Box office did not care. Some peoples' wallets and purses were fattened.	Blue Lagoon	40%
1990 action thriller. Jamie Lee Curtis, Ron Silver, Clancy Brown. A policewoman gets really annoyed with the change of attitudes towards her by people, on finding out she is a representative of the law enforcement community.	Blue Steel	40%
English singer, born Liverpool. She was friends with those most famous of Liverpudlians. 'You're My World.'	Cilla Black	40%
US actor. Prolific voice actor. Films 'Shoot to Kill' (aka 'Deadly Pursuit'), Highlander, Blue Steel. Well known role is the captain of the prison guard in a movie about wrongful incarceration and survival.	Clancy Brown	40%
2011 raved about bestseller.	Fifty Shades of Grey	40%
Pierce Brosnan's first appearance as James Bond.	Goldeneye	40%
An award to the top goalscorer of the season. Looks like one of a pair of old footwear that some hyperactive kindergarten boy has attacked with a can of aerosol paint... leaving a real, messi job of it.	Golden Shoe	40%
English author. 'Brighton Rock' 1938. 'The Third Man' 1949. 'The Quiet American' 1955.	Graham Greene	40%
British medical reference work first published in London, 1858.	Gray's Anatomy	40%
A Doctor Seuss breakfast?	Green Eggs and Ham	40%
Jealousy personified.	Green-eyed monster	40%
Verdant wasp.	Green Hornet	40%
1883 novel. Answer is the main antagonist, arguably the most famous fictional pirate in literature.	Long John Silver	40%
Canadian actor. 'Bonanza' patriarch.	Lorne Greene	40%
Gangster in 'The Godfather' movie. Casino co-owner. Shot through the right eye.	Moe Green	40%
1984 Prince song.	Purple Rain	40%
Star. According to estimates this type of star makes up three quarters of the stars in the Milky Way. I believe it. Even though it is said you cannot see a ___ _____ from Earth with the naked eye.	Red Dwarf	40%
1948 John Wayne film. Also Walter Brennan, Montgomery Clift. Fictionalised account of the first cattle drive from Texas to Kansas.	Red River	40%
1985 Western film. Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn, Danny Glover, Kevin Costner, Brian Dennehy, John Cheese.	Silverado	40%
1985 werewolf movie. What kills them.	Silver Bullet	40%
Viral disease transmitted by mosquitoes. If there is kidney damage to the victim the skin colour changes.	Yellow fever	40%
3,395 mile long river in China. Second longest in the country.	Yellow River	40%
US writer in the Western genre. 'Riders of the Purple Sage' (1912).	Zane Grey	40%
1970 Joni Mitchell song.	Big Yellow Taxi	20%
British ex-soldiers from WWI recruited to reinforce the RIC in Ireland in the Irish War of Independence, 1919-1921. Made a fearsome name for themselves in thuggery and war crimes.	Black and Tans	20%
Terrorist organisation responsible for the Munich Massacre, 1972.	Black September	20%
A horrific complication of malaria fever. 90% fatality rate according to certain sources.	Blackwater fever	20%
Elvis Presley in the islands of the Spam lovers.	Blue Hawaii	20%
1986 movie. "Don't you look at me, ____!" Another in a long list of Dennis Hopper's over-the-top, psychotic roles.	Blue Velvet	20%
Colloquial name of the Nazi Party's paramilitary organisation Sturmabteilung (SA). The SA was superseded by the SS in 1934 after 'The Night of the Long Knives.'	Brownshirts	20%
Well known type of townhouse in the US, especially New York City. To be considered a true example of the answer it must have at least two storeys.	Brownstone	20%
Evil, black-hearted intelligence officer in the book 'Catch-22', 1961.	Captain Black	20%
"Good grief."	Charlie Brown	20%
No good deed goes unpunished. A bovid rescues the son of a king and in gratitude the king's son has it sacrificed as an offering to Poseidon.	Golden Fleece	20%
A tactile gesture, real or metaphoric, that all workers would love to receive at the end of their tenure in a position of employment.	Golden handshake	20%
Man with the name of a male duck went boating in it.	Golden Hind	20%
1978 submarine disaster movie. Charlton Heston. Christopher Reeve's first film.	Gray Lady Down	20%
"Men who mean just what they say, the brave men of the ... "	Green Beret	20%
Shark. Also called a sand tiger shark.	Grey nurse shark	20%
Unclean gyrations.	Jennifer Grey	20%
Female Abwehr agent in Jack Higgins's novel 'The Eagle Has Landed' (1975).	Joanna Grey	20%
"... meaner than a junkyard dog."	Leroy Brown	20%
Philadelphus coronarius. US indie band from Indiana.	Mock Orange	20%
'Reservoir Dogs'. Undercover police officer.	Mr. Orange	20%
Moniker for Northern Ireland's loyalists.	Orangemen	20%
Traditional English nursery rhyme about bells circa 1744.	Oranges and Lemons	20%
Australian author. Nobel prize for literature recipient in 1973.	Patrick White	20%
"We Never Sleep."	Pinkerton	20%
Plymouth gin, Angostura bitters, water and lemon rind garnish.	Pink gin	20%
"The Vodka Swillers are a-comin'!" World War Three and the USA is saved by teenagers who call themselves 'Gulo gulo luscus'. Helping American victory is the supreme sacrifice of two brothers... a dirty dancer and a warlock with tiger blood.	Red Dawn	20%
Name of the capital of Mongolia translated to English.	Red Hero	20%
A misleading fish.	Red herring	20%
Infectious disease. Most commonly affects children aged 5-15 years. No vaccine.	Scarlet fever	20%
Belle of Tara.	Scarlett O'Hara	20%
What every cloud supposedly has.	Silver lining	20%
Rolls Royce model. Production (1965-1980). 30,057 manufactured. Also called ______ Wraith II.	Silver Shadow	20%
Having a wealthy or privileged background.	Silver spoon	20%
United States Armed Forces' third highest military decoration for valour in combat.	Silver Star	20%
1976 comedy/thriller film. Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Jill Clayburgh.	Silver Streak	20%
1895 novel by Stephen Crane. A young Union soldier flees from his first engagement and later wants to get a musket ball lodged in a part of his anatomy or at least get nicked with a length of cold steel to make amends for his earlier flight.	The Red Badge of Courage	20%
1850 historical fiction work by Nathaniel Hawthorne.	The Scarlet Letter	20%
Australian slang for methylated spirits when it is used for beverage purposes.	White lady	20%
Another name for 'moonshine'.	White Lightning	20%
Another name for the great white shark. No... we are not referring to the golfing goose.	White pointer shark	20%
Capital of Northwest Territories, Canada.	Yellowknife	20%
1965 movie. A blind young woman who has suffered domestic violence and worse befriends an educated, African-American man in a park. They become close. Based on the 1961 novel 'Be Ready with Bells and Drums' by Australian writer Elizabeth Kata.	A Patch of Blue	0%
A solid form of pure carbon. In the case of the answer, it gets a colouring through traces of boron.	Blue diamond	0%
1983 movie about a police helicopter that has far too much 'gun.'	Blue Thunder	0%
Nemesis of the Mysterons.	Captain Scarlet	0%
1973 crime thriller. Robert Blake. Motorcycle police officers in Arizona. The title is a reference to a Harley Davidson model that came out in 1965.	Electra Glide in Blue	0%
Famous Las Vegas casino. Opened 1946.	Golden Nugget	0%
1983 Prince song.	Little Red Corvette	0%
1967 Jimi Hendrix song.	Purple Haze	0%
Name of one of the factories that was the scene of brutal fighting in the Battle of Stalingrad.	Red October	0%
Two periods in American history... so far. The first (1917-1920). The second (1947-1957). The second instalment of the phenomenon is also known as 'McCarthyism' after Senator Joseph McCarthy who not only saw manifestations of this threat under his bed but also in his coffee and stool when he looked down before he flushed.	Red Scare	0%
1912 Western book by Zane Grey.	Riders of the Purple Sage	0%
Rolls Royce model. Production (1906-1926). 7874 manufactured. Also called a 40/50.	Silver Ghost	0%
1959 science-fiction film. Mars Rocket-1 (MR-1) lands on Mars. Carnivorous plants. Bat-rat-spider-crab creature. MR-1 escapes back to Earth. Martians let it be known to the Earthlings via a recording on the MR-1's database that... basically... they know where they live... come back to Mars again... and we will work on a Final Solution for you.	The Angry Red Planet	0%
2017 Western film. Bill Pullman, Peter Fonda, Tommy Flanagan.	The Ballad of Lefty Brown	0%
1988 French film about free diving. Jean Reno.	The Big Blue	0%
1972 novel by Joseph Wambaugh, whilst he was a serving officer of the LAPD. The book covers the last week of a LAPD officer's service before retirement. Wambaugh also wrote 'The New Centurions' (1971) and 'The Choir Boys' (1975). These books also cover the lives of officers in the LAPD.	The Blue Knight	0%
1936 Tintin adventure set in China during the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931.	The Blue Lotus	0%
1982 novel. 1985 film adaptation. Dark happenings in rural Georgia amongst African-Americans.	The Color Purple	0%
1830 Stendhal novel. It chronicles the life of a social climber of modest beginnings, in Bourbon Restoration France (1814-1830).	The Red and the Black	0%
Impure uranium oxide.	Yellowcake	0%
She secured one hundred of these around a plant of the genus Quercus.	Yellow Ribbon	0%