Fifty for Fun

Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England), June 7, 2008

45 To which country is the long-nosed bandicoot a native?

46 At which Hollywood studios did a major fire make headlines at the weekend?

4: The Lodger: A Story Of The London Fog was the first thriller directed by which master of the genre?

48 Since 2004, the Ediacaran period has been officially used by geologists for the period between 600 million and 542 million years ago: it is named after a range of hills in which country?

49 Which singer had a major transatlantic 1988 hit with Don't Worry, Be Happy?

50 In which film did actress Anne Hathaway play her breakthrough role of Mia Thermopolis?

ANSWERS

1 Sparta; 2 Benjamin Britten and WH Auden; 3 Abba (not yet under that name); 4 Dinara Safina; 5 Hermann Rorschach; 6 The golden eagle; 7 New York; 8 The Tour de France; 9 Queen Victoria; 10 The Shetlands; 11 The Simpsons; 12 France (Kourou in French Guiana, an overseas department of France); 13 Mel Ferrer; 14 Planet outside our solar system; 15 Bo Diddley; 16 Apple, Inc; 17 The FBI; 18 Contract bridge; 19 In 1830; 20 Thierry Henry; 21 Elinor Glyn; 22 Mark Waugh (though he may soon be overtaken by Rahul Dravid); 23 Charlton Heston; 24 Elke Sommer; 25 Burning Spear; 26 Winston Churchill and Harold Wilson; 27 In 1054; 28 The Netherlands; 29 Arizona; 30 The Arctic's (the Eurasian Basin at 17,881 feet down, since the Earth is a slightly flattened sphere); 31 Italy (centred on the city of Messina); 32 North America; 33 Moliere; 34 Babycham; 35 France; 36 Handball; 37 Zirconium; 38 The brain; 39 EastEnders (Albert Square; Fassett Square is in Hackney borough); 40 Hurling; 41 Macbeth (part of the three witches' potion recipe); 42 The giving of Maundy money; 43 Ocean Colour Scene; 44 Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life; 45 Australia; 46 Universal Studios; 47 Alfred Hitchcock; 48 Australia; 49 Bobby McFerrin; 50 The Princess Diaries.

CAPTION(S):

TORCHWOOD: see question 9