Stephen Hough has made 25 appearances at the Proms. In only one was he not playing the piano. What was he playing?
Tubular bells
The harpsichord
A vacuum cleaner
A swanee whistle
1999's performance of Bernstein's Wonderful Town ended how?
With audience, chorus and soloists congoing around the arena
With nine encores (still a Proms record)
With soloists Thomas Hampson and Kim Criswell doing an impromptu encore of Sonny & Cher's I Got You Babe
With two Royal Albert Hall ushers doing a tango around the gallery
Bryn Terfel has sung in two Last Nights. In 2008, he was dressed as Falstaff, but what was he wearing for his performance in 1994's Last Night?
A bearskin
The Welsh rugby kit, complete with a rugby ball
A gold-sequinned dress, tiara and Dr-Martens boots
A thawb and a keffiyeh
In August 1974, Thomas Allen collapsed during a performance of Orff’s Carmina Burana. What happened next?
Conductor Sir Georg Solti sang his part
A member of the audience took over
The performance was abandoned, and the orchestra played a Mozart symphony instead
After a 20-minute pause during which a doctor in the audience attended to him, he recovered enough to continue
Who was responsible for Esther's Nose Job in 1970? (Incidentally the first rock group to appear at the Proms.)
Soft Machine
Deep Purple
Kraftwerk
Henry Cow
In 2007, a significant part of the audience got to go home wearing the orchestra's clothing. Which orchestra?
Grimethorpe Colliery Band
The Vienna Philharmonic
The Orchestra of Life
The Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra
Parts of Mark Anthony Turnage’s new work Hammered Out, premiered in 2010, featured a striking resemblance to what?
Jessie J’s Price Tag
Beyonce’s Single Ladies (Put a Ring on it)
Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean
The Ting Ting’s That’s Not My Name
Why did the BBC take the Proms off the air in 2011?
There were vocal protests inside the hall against the presence of the Israel Philharmonic
The piece being premiered involved language deemed “unacceptable” pre-watershed
Tube-strike action meant that a portion of the orchestra were late for the concert, whose start was delayed by half an hour
A bomb scare necessitated the evacuation of the Albert Hall
Who described Harrison Birtwistle’s Panic, premiered in 1995's Last Night, as “a horrible cacophony”?
His mother
The Daily Mail
John Birt, then BBC Director General
Peter Maxwell Davies
Why did Simon Rattle restart the Berlin Phil’s Rite of Spring in 2003?
He sneezed so violently he dropped his baton
The bassoonist missed the entry
A prommer slipped and fell in the fountain
A mobile phone went off during the opening bars
What did Ilan Volkov play during John Cage night in 2012?
A cactus spine
A bale of hay
A vacuum cleaner
The spoons
What unusual request did Matthew Herbert make of the audience for his 15 August 2012 performance?
That everyone wear blindfolds
That everyone make paper airplanes and launch them into the air at a given point
That everyone turn ON their mobile phones so the sound of texts and phone calls could contribute to the ensuing performance
To boo rather than applaud at the end
Which of these haven't appeared at a Prom?
A Weeping Angel
Wallace & Gromit
Kings George I, II, III and IV
Tinky Winky the Teletubby
In 2011, pianist Dejan Lazić’s encore was what?
The Lady Gaga Fugue by Giovanni Dettori
Beethoven's Hammerklavier sonata
His own arrangement of Happy Birthday, in honour of conductor Ivan Fischer’s 60th
John Cage’s 4’33”
Audiences at 21 July 2009’s Prom got to witness performers dressed as giant bunnies simulating sex. To accompany what music?
Purcell’s Fairy Queen
John Cage’s Musicircus
Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring
Eric Whitacre’s Higher, Faster, Stronger