Onions For Brains

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This was your chance to beat the BRAINS of the MANCHESTER SPRING ONION . The answers are now here! and the winners are - big drum roll please.

Argon0 with 29

Manolan with 25

GreyDesk with 13

and achieving spectacular unsuccess.........

Wumbeevil with 0

MUSIC



    Who had a hit with 'In the Year 2525' in 1969 - Zager and Evans

    What is Madonna's surname - Ciccone, Penn or Ritchie

    Which Roberta Flack song gave the Fugees a No 1 hit - Killing Me Softly

    Which group was Bjork formerly the lead singer of - Sugarcubes

    What was the original name of Black Sabbath - Earth

    Who had an album entitled 'Sing When You're Winning - Robbie Williams

    Which song contains the lyrics 'Spider Murphy played the Tenor saxophone' -Jailhouse Rock - Elvis Presley

    Which band is fronted by Steve Tyler - Aerosmith

    What song contains the lyrics 'I met a strange lady, she made me nervous, she took me in and gave me breakfast' - Land Down Under - Men at Work

    True or False, the lead singer of James is called James - False

SCI-FI



    Who played Uhura in the original Star Trek - Nichelle Nichols

    What is Captain Kirk's middle name - Tiberius

    Who wrote 'Battlefield Earth' - L Ron Hubbard

    Who wrote the Foundation Series - Isaac Asimov

    Who was the 1st Captain of the Starship Enterprise - Christopher Pike

    Who was the 1st Commander of Babylon 5 - Jeffrey Sinclair

    Who was the 2nd Doctor Who - Partick Troughton

    Who wrote 'The Saga of Exiles' - Julian May

    Which Doctor Who was formerly married to the daughter of a famous Rose Grower - Tom Baker (Harry Wheatcroft's daughter Anna)

    Where would you avoid Threadfall - Pern

LIFE THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING



    What is Mark Moxon's Researcher Number - U13

    In nautical terms, what is whipping - Binding the ends of a rope to prevent fraying

    Name all 5 Marx Brothers who appeared in films - Groucho, Chico, Harpo, Gummo and Zeppo (Note I didn't ask for Marx Bros films)

    Who was known as the 'Luncheon Voucher Madam' - Cynthia Payne

    Who did George Foreman beat to become champion in 1973 - Smokin' Joe Frazier

    Who wrote the book 'Forrest Gump' - Winston Groome

    Name the Headmaster of Hogwarts - Albus Dumbledore

    Who recently dumped Mick Jagger - Sophie Dahl

    Which Researcher should you offer doughnuts to - Greebo T Cat

    When was DNA's birthday - 11th March 1952

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