Never done this quiz lark before but all the quizes I ever seem to come across are easy pop culture. I thought I'd try and raise the bar a bit
No doubt everyone will get the answers in 10 minutes
I'll nip back later to see how people are doing.
1) The hymn Amazing Grace - what was the profession of its author?
2)
The horizon leans forward,
Offering you space to place new steps of change.
Here, on the pulse of this fine day
You may have the courage
To look up and out upon me,
The rock, the river, the tree, your country.
Where was the author born, and for which occasion did she read the poem?
3) Lee Perry may have burnt down his first recording studio but what was it called?
4) "I lie here and wait. I think about Janice, how I lost, how she ran away red through my fingers in the rain, and I wait."
Taken from the last page of which series of books?
5) The names of the trio of black girls in Little Shop of Horrors?
6) Which of the above three is the name of the group who had a "hit" with Be My Baby?
7) What was a "graveyard smash"?
8) Who wrote the haunting signature tune for the war movie Platoon, and can you name the equally moving choral version?
9) What was Dr Phibes' servant called?
10) In the book "Misery", which animal betrays Paul Sheldon and how does Annie Wilkes punish him?
11) As they fight in the belfry the Joker says that Batman made him - but how did the Joker make Batman?
12) Name the (anti) war poet born on 8th September 1886 and awarded the Military Cross in 1916 for courage under fire.