Isolation Quiz – The Answers Now that one correspondent has claimed to have solved 59 out of 60 it is time to put you out of your misery with the answers. It was designed to be difficult – and annoying – to make the lock-in go faster. We do need to apologise to the pedant who pointed out that Pop Q4 was actually titled Ferry cross the Mersey – so it should have been FCtM rather than FAtM. Anyway, we hope you enjoyed it.

Pop Music

1 Legend of Xanadu Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky Mick & Titch 2 Heartbreak Hotel Elvis Presley 3 Wild Thing The Troggs 4 Ferry Across the Mersey Jerry and the Pacemakers 5 Under the Boardwalk The Drifters 6 Its Not Unusual Tom Jones 7 Sitting on the Dock of the Bay Otis Redding 8 Mighty Quinn Manfred Mann 9 Jumping Jack Flash Rolling Stones 10 Bend Me Shape Me Amen Corner 11 The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and he Spiders From Mars David Bowie 12 My Generation The Who 13 The Green Manaleshi (With the two-Pringed Crown) Fleetwood Mac 14 Those were the Days my Friend Mary Hopkin 15 Needles and Pins The Searchers 16 Let me entertain you Robbie Williams 17 When I fall in Love Nat King Cole 18 I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas Bing Crosby 19 Come Fly With Me Frank Sinatra 20 We’ve got to get out of the Place The Animals Classic Books: title/author 1 Notes from a Small Island Bill Bryson 2 Dr No Ian Fleming 3 Angela’s Ashes Frank McCourt 4 Bend in the River VS Naipaul 5 To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf 6 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy John Le Carre 7 Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel 8 David Copperfield Charles Dickens 9 Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte 10 Moll Flanders Daniel Defoe 11 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 12 The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Attwood 13 The Life of Pi Yann Mantel 14 The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy 15 The Other Boleyn Girl Philippa Gregory 16 To Kill a Mockingbird Harpur Lee 17 The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald 18 Catcher in the Rye J D Salinger 19 Pride & Prejudice Jane Austen 20 The Count pf Monte Christo Alexander Dumas

Classic Films Star/film 1 Marlon Brando Last Tango in Paris T 2 John Wayne True Grit 3 Harrison Ford Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 4 Sigourney Weaver Alien 5 Julie Andrews The Sound of Music 6 Colin Firth The King’s Speech 7 Ben Kingsley Ghandi 8 Peter O’Toole Lawrence of Arabia 9 Brad Pitt Fight Club 10 Marilyn Munroe Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 11 Orson Welles Citizen Kane 12 Yul Brunner The Magnificent Seven 13 Daniel Radcliff e Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 14 Dirk Bogarde The Maltese Falcon 15 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri Frances McDormand 16 Tom Cruise Top Gun 17 Drew Barrymore ET 18 Jack Nicholson One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest 19 Richard Burton Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf 20 Tom Hanks Saving Private Ryan