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Trailing only Walt Disney, who, with 49, has the second highest number of Academy Award nominations? In 1995 he was nominated for three different films and he has won five awards.

John WILLIAMS

Which famous 19th Century novel, set in the eponymous, fictional town in the British midlands and subtitled, ?A Study of Provincial Life?, concerns three interwoven plotlines ? the marriage of Dorothea Brooke to Edward Casaubon, the arrival of Dr Lydgate to the town and the ruin of Fred Vincy through the honesty of his wife Mary?

MIDDLEMARCH
Unusually for a piano quintet, it features a double-bass instead of one of the traditional violinists, whose Piano Quintet in A-major, published posthumously, is better known as the Trout Quintet?

Franz SCHUBERT

What is the given name of the lead female character in the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical The Phantom of the Opera ? she was played by Sarah Brightman in the both the West End and Broadway openings of the musical in 1986 and 1988, respectively.

CHRISTINE (Daa‚)

Brian Burton is a US songwriter, musician and producer, who has collaborated with a number of different artists over the last ten years, perhaps most famously forming the duo Gnarls Barkley with the singer CeeLo Green. Burton shares his stage name with which superhero that was popular in the 1980?s?

DANGER MOUSE

Ignoring the 4-way tie in 1969, which country became the first to win outright back-to-back Eurovision song-contests, winning in 1972 and 1973 with Vicky Leandros singing ?After You? and Anne-Marie David singing ?You?ll Recognise Yourself?, in their native languages?

LUXEMBOURG
Which music producer, who has worked with acts as diverse as the Beastie Boys, Metallica and Johnny Cash over the last 30 years, originally founded Def Jam Records before consigning the word ?Def? to the grave after he felt that it had become too mainstream ? he even held an actual funeral for the word ? and re-launching the label as American Recordings?

Frederick ?Rick? RUBIN

With a word coming from the Scot?s Gaelic for darkness or twilight, what name is shared by a track from the Radiohead album ?Hail to the Thief? and the self-titled, debut album released this year of a traditional, folk-music Irish-US super-group?

The GLOAMING

Which Irish actor, in 1944, was the only person ever to be nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor for the same performance? He won the latter and subsequently broke the statue when practising his golf swing.

Barry FITZGERALD (Going My Way)

Which controversial Danish director and screenwriter won the 2000 Palme D?Or for his film Dancer in the Dark but in 2011 was declared persona-non-grata at the Cannes film festival for supposedly tongue-in-cheek pro-Hitler and pro-Nazi comments?

Lars VON TRIER
The ten best-selling albums of the 1950?s in the UK consisted of six musical soundtracks, two Sinatra albums and an Elvis record. Which British singer-songwriter, the ?King of the Skiffle? occupied the number six spot with his ?Showcase? album?

Lonnie DONNEGAN

Which Irish-born playwright is best known for the works ?Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme? about a division of Ulster soldiers during World War I and ?Someone Who?ll Watch Over Me? about three men who are held hostage in the Lebanon?

Frank MCGUINNESS

Which 1962 film, in which we are initially led to believe that James Stewart is the title character, though the film reveals to us that in fact John Wayne is, contains the line, ?When the legend becomes fact, print the legend??

THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE

Which Irish comedian, the host of several TV shows including "Mock the Week" and "Stargazing Live" also features alongside Griff Rhys Jones and Rory McGrath in "Three Men in a Boat"?

Dara O?BRIAIN
Rickets, which is the softening of bones most frequently found in children, is most often caused by a deficiency of which vitamin?

D

The pituitary gland is a pea-size part of the endocrine system, which secretes a number of important hormones including somatropin (the human growth hormone) and oxytocin and is located immediately below which organ of the human body?

BRAIN

They already appeared as a couple in "That 70's Show". This week it was announced that Ashton Kutcher's actress fianc‚ will appear on his current high-rating US TV comedy "Two and A Half Men". What is her name?

Mila KUNIS

According to astrologers, the signs for the Astrological Ages are the exact reverse order to those for the Signs of the Zodiac. If we are currently in the Age of Aquarius, as the musical Hair would have us believe, which Age should, therefore, come next?

CAPRICORN
Named after a town in the Po Valley where it is grown, Arborio is a variety of what foodstuff? It is most usually used to make a very common Italian starter or ?primo plati?.

RICE

Which actress resigned as a Global Ambassador for the charity Oxfam, following criticism of her involvement in advertising SodaStream, a product used to produce home-made fizzy drinks, due to the fact that SodaStream?s main manufacturing plant is in an Israeli settlement within the Palestinian West Bank?

Scarlett JOHANSSON

When grass pollen is inhaled by someone with a sensitive immune system, what is the name of the nitrogenous, organic compound produced as part of the immune response? Its production results in the various symptoms of hay fever and many hay fever drugs work explicitly to reduce this production.

HISTAMINE

In Europe it is called the bilberry or European blueberry, what American name for this fruit links ?my friend? in a Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer classic song, a cartoon hound and the title character of a famous 19th century, American novel?

HUCKLEBERRY
Her father is one of the most successful recording artists of the 21 grandfather was a US attorney and businessman, her maternal step-father was a US Olympic gold-medal winning athlete but it?s not hugely apparent what her mother or her many aunts and uncles do. What is the name (given and surname required) of this girl, born June 15th, 2013?

NORTH WEST

Which form of handicraft, which uses a single implement to process fabric from yarn or thread, gets its name from the French word for "hook"?

CROCHET

Historically a type of hood worn by women, in more recent times it has become a type of tubular neck-scarf, what item of clothing has been banned by the International Football Association Board since 2011?

SNOOD

A good friend of Sesame Street?s Big Bird, Aloysius Snuffleupagos , often known as Mr Snuffleupagos or Snuffy, is a type of what sort of now extinct mammal ? though he does seem to lack some of the most prominent features of this animal, most obviously the large ears?

Woolly MAMMOTH

Sometimes known by its initials SCA, which blood disorder, highly prevalent in tropical and malarial regions, is so-called because it results in irregularly-shaped red blood-cells?

SICKLE-CELL Anaemia / Disorder

Almost exclusively found in Spain, despite its popularity slipping over the last ten years, Airen remains one of the most widely-planted varieties of which fruit?

GRAPE

With nearly twice as many 3-star restaurants as Paris, including one in an underground car-park which seats only seven people, which city, as of 2013, has the most Michelin stars?

TOKYO

What is the given name of the boy born on 14th February 2014, to Lauren Silverman and music mogul Simon Cowell?

ERIC

Although now resident in the UK, what nationality is the fashion-designer Manolo Blahnik, best known for his eponymous shoe brand?

SPANISH

He is the brother of a much more famous actor, and received an Academy Award nomination for his role in The Assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford. He is married to an American actress, Summer Phoenix, the sister of actors River and Joaquin, and together they have two children. Name this actor.

Casey AFFLECK

Named as one of the most influential people in the world by Time Magazine in 2002, he died following a fall in 2003. Whose dietary plans are based around the idea that carbohydrates cause the body to produce excess insulin, ultimately causing people to feel hungry?

Robert ATKINS

Deltiology is the study and / or collection of what?

POSTCARDS

Highland, Lowland, Speyside, Islay and Campbelltown are the five main regions producing what specific product?

SCOTCH / WHISKY

What, usually expensive, dish consists of cooked lobster meat in a mustard-based sauce, mixed with egg yolks and brandy and usually served stuffed into the lobster shell?

Lobster THERMIDOR

Pil pil, a dish of salted cod cooked in olive oil with garlic and guindilla pepper has its origins in the cuisine of which European people?

BASQUE

Founded in 1899 and now situated in on New York?s Fifth Avenue, which luxury department store has featured in the films ?Arthur? and ?Sex and the City 2? and was also the subject of a 2013 documentary called ?Scatter my Ashes at?.??

BERGDORF ? Goodman

Which singer-songwriter had a UK number 1 single as part of synth-pop duo Soft Cell and a solo number 1 with a re-release of a Gene Pitney classic, with Pitney guesting on the song?

Marc ALMOND

Which two-word, alliterative term describes the practice where couples tie a pad-lock usually to a gate or bridge and throw away the key, as a sign of their unbreakable love?

LOVE LOCK(ing)

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