1. Name the actor who was Swell Maps tour driver in 1979.

2. Name the first punk band to record a John Peel Session.

3. Name the Wyndham Lewis-admiring singer of impeccable working class stock whose legendary band was formed in the 1970s and once declared "work is the only thing that matters".

4a. Who was allegedly the inspiration for She is Beyond Good and Evil by the Pop Group?
4b What was her pet name for Mark Stewart?

5. Name the only LP where Steve Jones and Paul Simonon play together.

6. What do McCarthy, Beat Happening and kray-zee 60s film-maker Peter Whitehead have in common?

7. Which 1978 LP did Julie Burchill compare to The Seeds, The Doors, The Zombies and Love in her NME review?

8. What connects Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, The Cramps, Sonic Youth, Panther Burns, The Gun Club and Nick Cave's Bad Seeds?

9. In 1988 Jimmy Page released a solo LP, Outriders, featuring vocals by Chris Farlowe and John Miles (I'm not making this up!) - how many marks out of 10 did Edwin "Savage Pencil" Pouncey award it when he reviewed it for the NME?

10. What do the following have in common? (This isn't actually a pop question - I'm afraid no refunds are available)

Marilyn Monroe
Noel Coward
Marlene Dietrich
Montgomery Clift
Tennessee Williams
Leonard Bernstein
Burt Lancaster
Truman Capote
Cecil Beaton
Nancy Reagan
Jackie Kennedy
James Baldwin
Clifford Odets
Gore Vidal
Ava Gardener
Veronica Lake
Ingrid Bergman
Joan Crawford
Jean Cocteau
Juliette Greco
Edith Piaf
Elizabeth Taylor
Vivien Leigh
Cary Grant
Tyrone Power
Kenneth Tynan
Yul Bryner
Ursula Andress
Stewart Granger
James Dean
John Gielgud
Mae West
Richard Burton
Haile Selassie
Rita Hayworth
Gloria Vanderbilt

Bonus points are available for identifying the ringer.

6. songs resp. films called "The Fall"
8. Kid Congo Powers
9. probably zero

3 Mark Smith?

8. Jim Sclavunos

6 - correct! Songs/film entitled The Fall.

Others are wrong...

Ha! You fell into my cunning trap. Incorrect.

Correct! I was also going to include Eight Eyed Spy but I thought that would make it too easy. Greatest cv ever or what?!

2. The Damned??
10. All on cover of Sgt Pepper

Blast! cunning traps.
Blessed??

Was it that Havana 3am album? Or maybe The Professionals?

First Punk Peel Session the Vibrators?

3 Johnny Rotten?

5 Is it the soundtrack to Ladies and Gentlemen the Fabulous Stains ?

Wrong on both counts, I'm afraid...

Afraid not...

Correct! How on earth did you know that? I only gleaned this fact when I was idly scrolling through a chronology of Peel sessions one day while British Gas had me on hold...

Nope.

An inspired guess! But wrong.

So just to recap: 2,6 and 8 have been correctly answered so far.

9. 10 out of 10 ?

Ding! Correct. I wonder when he last played this masterpiece.

So that's now 2, 6, 8 and 9.

3. Bryan Ferry?

Hats off!! Correct.

2, 3, 6, 8 and 9 have now been answered...

1. Wild guess Time :

Keith Allen

Top darts! Correct.

1, 2, 3, 6, 8 and 9 have now been answered.

:o :o :o :o :o :D :lol: Blimey...

5 - That thing with Phil Lynott?

7 - True Love by Jilted John?

5 - Afraid not.

7 - Well played sir! Correct. Although the LP was titled True Love Stories, to be pedantic.

That just leaves 4, 5 and 10.

10 - er, they've all been in charge of the Priory of Scion?


...either that or mentioned in Madonna songs...

Cor-rong. But you will be pretty gob-smacked when you learn the answer.

10 All Stonecutters?

You're getting colder...

5 - In that case was it the Professionals? Either that or they played on a Chas n' Dave LP.

My Balloon already suggested that. It was in the late 80s, no more clues...

10 - they've all been the subjects of posters at Athena.

MUCH juicier...

They've all posed nude?

Or they were all bisexual communists.

Even juicier.

Jucier than that? Blimey!

They've all been in porn films, were all alcoholic drug users and each was a card carrying member of the Fourth International.

5. Bob Dylan's "Down In The Groove"

Correct! Truly bizarre.

Just 4 and 10 left...