Wuthering Heights and Lionhearts – take the Thursday quiz Kate Bush special

It's Kate Bush’s birthday on Saturday, and so we've an thrilling new one-off Thursday quiz format in her honour! Each one in every of these common data and vaguely topical questions this week is loosely and tangentially associated to one of many superb songs that she has launched through the years. However don’t fear – you don’t need to know something about Kate Bush to participate. There are not any prizes. It's only for enjoyable. Tell us within the feedback in case you ended up Working Up That Hill like her worldwide smash hit, or discovered your self Suspended in Gaffa, one of many extremely bizarre tracks from her good The Dreaming album.

The Thursday quiz, No 66 – Kate Bush particular version

1.STRANGE PHENOMENA: Featured on Kate's debut LP, this music is about how coincidences cluster collectively. However a wierd phenomenon that occurred final week was a bizarre pink glow within the sky in Australia. What was it?

A uncommon lighting impact of the Aurora Australis

An experimental gentle present by up to date artist Bianca Hester

Somebody forgot to place the blinds down on a hashish manufacturing facility

Aliens

2.BABOOSHKA: Kate's Russian-themed music. Final week the US stated it might have discovered one of many uncommon Fabergé eggs on an impounded oligarch yacht. What number of Imperial Easter eggs do Fabergé say have been created for the Russian Imperial household from 1885 to 1916?

31

44

50

62

3.BAMBOO-SHKA: You see what I did there? An An (pictured), the world’s oldest captive male large panda, died in Hong Kong zoo final week. How previous was An An?

25

35

45

55

4.OH ENGLAND MY LIONHEART: This music was form of the title observe of Kate's second album, Lionheart. However how did Richard I of England (engraved), usually often called Richard the Lionheart, die?

A crossbow bolt by the shoulder whereas in France

Fell off a horse in a looking accident whereas in Lombardy

Unexpectedly in his sleep whereas in Sicily

Pelted with cash and sharp objects after asserting he was forming a European Tremendous League™

5.OH ENGLAND MY LIONHEART (SLIGHT RETURN): It is not a lion (pictured), and it is not in England, however what's being returned to the wild in India’s forests for the primary time in additional than 70 years?

Puma

Panther

Cheetah

30-50 feral hogs

6.THERE GOES A TENNER: Kate launched a single a few financial institution theft from her album The Dreaming which didn't chart within the UK. However what number of Indian rupees (roughly) would you get for £10 on the present trade charges?

₹9.54 INR

₹95.4 INR

₹954 INR

₹9,540 INR

7.LAKE TAHOE: Is a ghost story that includes a canine on Kate Bush's 50 Phrases For Snow album. However the place is the actual Lake Tahoe located?

Nevada, USA

Oregon, USA

British Columbia, Canada

Northwest Territories, Canada

8.IN SEARCH OF PETER PAN: A music assured to make the quiz grasp cry, it's a few baby whose life is so horrible he needs to develop as much as be Peter Pan. However who created the character of Peter Pan?

C S Lewis

J M Barrie

Lewis Carroll

J R Hartley

9.HAMMER HORROR: In Hammer Horror Kate tells the story of a number one actor haunted by the ghost of the person whose function he stole. However who (not pictured) used to star so much as Depend Dracula within the Hammer Horror films?

Peter Cushing

Christopher Lee

David Prowse

Michael Gough

10.GCSE MATHS CORNER BUT WITH A KATE BUSH TWIST: On her album Aerial, Kate Bush performs a music known as Pi throughout which she recites the worth of π at some appreciable size. Which of those is the right first six digits of the worth of π?

3.41519

3.18158

3.16142

3.14159

11.JOANNI: Joanni can be on Kate's album Aerial. The place was Joan of Arc placed on trial by the English in 1431?

Rouen

Reims

Rennes‎

Rochester

12.THE SAXOPHONE SONG: A not very imaginatively-titled observe from Kate's debut album incorporates a saxophone. The not very imaginatively-titled instrument was patented by Adolphe Sax. However when?

1796

1846

1896

1916

13.KASHKA FROM BAGHDAD: This music was a few mysterious couple in a small city that no one is aware of something about, however everyone seems to be curious. The Thursday Quiz is curious to know, which river flows by Baghdad?

Euphrates

Jordan

Tigris

Androzani

14.WUTHERING HEIGHTS: No Kate Bush-themed quiz could be full with out a query about this novel. It was initially printed beneath the pen identify Ellis Bell. However which Brontë sister wrote it?

Elizabeth Brontë

Charlotte Brontë

Emily Brontë

Bunty Brontë

15.IT'S ME, CATHY: And eventually – what 12 months did Kate Bush have her UK No 1 hit single along with her debut launch, Wuthering Heights?

1977

1978

1979

1980

• In the event you do suppose there was an egregious error in one of many questions or solutions, please be at liberty to e-mail martin.belam@theguardian.com, however keep in mind, the quiz grasp’s phrase is at all times remaining, and he's about to go on vacation for just a few weeks therefore switching to codecs that may be virtually completely pre-written with fewer topical parts. Simply roll with it.