Let’s get quizzical

As Halloween rolls around, this week's quiz is full of deportation orders, tourbus infernos, and, the inspirational voice of Whoopi Goldberg. Pit your wits against the best of the week's music news here
  
  


  1. Which band's tourbus burst into flames on the side of the M62 this week, leading the Lincoln branch of JD Sports to offer £800-worth of clothes and footwear to the band’s crew to replace their burnt possessions?

    1. The View

    2. Feeder

    3. Mogwai

    4. The Streets

  2. Which band aims to grab a place in the Guinness Book of Records this week by completing the most radio interviews in a single day?

    1. Fall Out Boy

    2. Oasis

    3. Metallica

    4. Snow Patrol

  3. Which band are set to pick up the Godlike Genius prize at the next NME awards, it was revealed this week?

    1. The Clash

    2. The Cure

    3. The Cramps

    4. Calexico

  4. Which singer announced this week that he hopes to incorporate lectures into his forthcoming live shows and to “morph the concert into a disco at the end”?

    1. Jamie Lidell

    2. Jarvis Cocker

    3. Mika

    4. Sam Sparro

  5. This week, which group announced details of their forthcoming Christmas record, which was recorded in Transylvania and is set to include tracks called, Careful What You Wish For, Cruel Moon and Fuck You, It’s Over?

    1. Glasvegas

    2. Malcolm Middleton

    3. Foals

    4. The Twilight Sad

  6. Which ‘soul’ singer said this week that her “first introduction to soul music” was through ‘90s film Sister Act, in which Whoopi Goldberg dresses as a nun and hides-out in an inner city convent?

    1. Amy Winehouse

    2. Duffy

    3. Adele

    4. Joss Stone

  7. Which US singer has adopted the stage name Sasha Fierce for her forthcoming double album?

    1. Grace Jones

    2. Christina Aguilera

    3. Rihanna

    4. Beyonce Knowles

  8. Which singer topped Forbes magazine’s list of the highest-earning dead celebrities for the second year running, earning a cool $52m in the last year?

    1. Marvin Gaye

    2. Elvis Presley

    3. John Lennon

    4. Johnny Cash

  9. Which actor announced he is quitting the silver screen to pursue a career in music?

    1. Johnny Depp

    2. Gael Garcia Bernal

    3. Joaquin Phoenix

    4. Don Cheadle

  10. Paul McCartney and former Beatles drummer Pete Best were once deported from Germany after setting fire to what, according to a radio interview with Best this week?

    1. Condoms

    2. A dog

    3. John Lennon's handkerchief

    4. A bowling green

Solutions

1:B, 2:A, 3:B, 4:B, 5:A, 6:B, 7:D, 8:B, 9:C, 10:A

Scores

  1. 2 and above.

    The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire

  2. 5 and above.

    Burn baby burn

  3. 8 and above.

    Fight fire with fire

  4. 10 and above.

    Let me stand next to your fire

 

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