#work song is Benedick and Beatrice's song

[bookholichany]

"I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thyeyes."

"When my time comes around

Lay me gently in the cold, dark earth

No grave can hold my body down

I'll crawl home to her"

[emotinalsupportturtle]

you've heard of the Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn as Benedick and Beatrice hc (or you should have)

Now, let me present to you David Tennant and Catherine Tate in the Philadelphia Story

[flowercrown-bard]

thank you for tagging me @trice-the-nobling <3

Last song : World's greatest dad

Currently watching : A ton of long video essays about fandoms I'm not in and controversies I never heard about

Three ships : Benedick/Beatrice, ineffable husbands, Zutara (I haven't thought about them in a while, but they'll always have a special place in my heart)

Favorite color : changes all the time, but right now I get very excited about yellow things

Currently consuming : coffee

First ship : Zutara

Birthplace : Germany

Current location : on the floor

Relationship status : in a relationship with the most amazing person <3

Last movie : Across the Spiderverse (I think?)

Currently working on : My master's thesis, crocheting a vest, whittling another horse, an original novel

Tagging: @dhwty-writes @parttime-creative @combatbootsfemme @lokibus

[galwithalibrarycard]

Title: you were all i wanted

Author: galwithalibrarycard

Fandoms: Lovely Little Losers, Nothing Much to Do (Web Series)

Relationship: Beatrice Duke/Benedick Hobbes

Characters: Beatrice Duke, Benedick Hobbes, Meg Winter, Freddie Kingston, Jaquie Manders, mentions of others

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Another way Beadick could've gotten over their shit and gotten back together, Karaoke, inspired by a taylor swift song - Freeform, Fluff and Angst, all you had to do was stay

Summary:

In which Meg gets the crew to a karaoke bar, Beatrice sings "All You Had to Do Was Stay" with one very significant lyric change, and revelations happen. Or, just another way Bea and Ben could have gotten their shit together at or near the end of Lolilo.

(Because sometimes you watch a Taylor Swift concert movie and you love it so much and it reminds you so much of your OTP that you just have to sit down and bring a whole fanfic into existence in one sitting.)

[bookgeekgrrl]

My media this week (18-24 Sep 2022)

ᵗʰᵉ ᵃᵘᵗᵘᵐⁿ ʷᵉᵃᵗʰᵉʳ ᵃᵖᵖᵉᵃʳˢ ᵗᵒ ᵇᵉ ʰᵉʳᵉ ᵗᵒ ˢᵗᵃʸ ᵃⁿᵈ ᶦ ᵃᵐ ᵈᵉˡᶦᵍʰᵗᵉᵈ ᵃᶠ

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

😍 👂‍The Sugared Game (The Will Darling Adventures #2) (KJ Charles, author; Cornell Collins, narrator) - confronting terrible family (and also a criminal gang), part one

😍 To Trust Man On His Oath (The Will Darling Adventures #2.5) (KJ Charles, author) - Will & Kim make a vow

😍 👂‍Subtle Blood (The Will Darling Adventures #3) (KJ Charles, author; Cornell Collins, narrator) - confronting terrible family (and also a criminal gang), part two

😍 How Goes The World? (The Will Darling Adventures #3.5) (KJ Charles, author) - delightful, indulgent coda where Archie Curtis gets to meet HIS 'heir apparent' (more or less)

🙂 A Pebble for Lewis (Alaskan Pebble Gifters #1) (Amy Bellows, author) - 37K, KU, polor bear/penguin shifter romance - did not expect this to carry thru to the mpreg & birth tbh so the extremely sexual egg-laying scene was a surprise but I ain't mad about it

😊 Majestic (Oh_i_swear, author) - 69K, Stucky - modern omegaverse royalty arranged marriage AU

😍 👂‍Two Rogues Make a Right (Seducing the Sedgwicks #3) (Cat Sebastian, author; Joel Leslie, narrator) - 'only one bed'; very low angst/high feelings & pining; always gives me some major shrinkyclinks vibe (which I mean in the best way possible)

😍 The Good Morrow (Hark_bananas, author; huei/Nogi/nogstalia, artists) - reread, 75K, Stucky post-WS canon divergent - Steve & Bucky find each other again through a shared dream in a diner - absolutely magical, lovely, warm, one of my absolute faves

🙂 Double Sin and Other Stories (Hercule Poirot #38) (Agatha Christie, author; Hugh Fraser/Isla Blair/Joan Hickson/Anna Massey/David Suchet/Christopher Lee/Simon Vance, narrators) - short story collection

💖💖 +139K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

[Podfic] Blind Date (aggressivewhenstartled, author; quietnight, narrator) - MCU: shrinkyclinks, 8K - great podfic of a very funny shrinkyclinks

Another for Working Days (SassySnowperson) - Much Ado About Nothing: Beatrice/Benedick/Don Pedro, 13K - what if Beatrice had said 'yes' to the Prince's offer?

Whole In Your Frame (AidaRonan) - MCU: shrunkyclunks, 15K - absolutely adore this fic with Cap!Steve and nerdy scientist Bucky

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

nothing to report, watched zero things

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

It's Been a Minute - How HBO transformed television

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Ark Two Shelter

Shedunnit Book Club - A Prize Mystery

Switched on Pop - Lady Gaga & The Pequeños Monstruos

Vibe Check - Mercury Needs To Sit Its A$$ Down Somewhere

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - America’s “Quiet Zone”

Ologies with Alie Ward - Geology (ROCKS) Part 2 with Schmitty Thompson

Twenty Thousand Hertz+ - 1-900-20K-HRTZ

Overinvested - Ep. 269: King Arthur: Legend of the Sword

One Year - 1986: The Miracle of Cokeville

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Libre Intentional Artist Community

Song Exploder - Panic! At the Disco - Viva Las Vengeance

Strong Songs - Strong Grooves, Vol. 1 (feat. Russ Kleiner)

Strong Songs Bonus Episodes - How Clyde Stubblefield Evolved Funk Drumming

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

The Crystal Method

"September" [Earth, Wind & Fire] radio

Butterfly: 25th Anniversary Expanded Edition [Mariah Carey]

Presenting Janet Jackson

Night Ranger

"Cissy Strut" [The Meters] radio

[creating-constellations]

tagged by @callixton ily

last song: home by edward sharpe and the magnetic zeros. im in my stupid in love era unfortunately (joke im so very fortunate)

currently reading: listening to the lightning thief audiobook bc im back on my percy jackson bullshit frfr

last film: anastasia ! forgot how fuckin weird that movie is lmao

currently watching: the percy jackson show. im predictable

currently craving: chocolate chip cookies. brownies. sweet baked good please

three ships: benedick/beatrice from nothing much to do (very good webseries yall should watch they’re doing a dracula daily-style thing to celebrate their 10 year anniversary im hyped), locklyle from lockwood & co bc that hyperfixation may be on the outs but they still make me insane, and yeah whatever those bitches in julius caesar got going on

first ship: percabeth !! a day one fr

favorite color: to Wear, dark red, to Look At, warm, sunshine yellow

currently working on: uhhh. making little matching scarves for my gf’s stuffed animals. someday i will finish my locklyle fic. also julius caesar stuff FINALLY

tagging @margh0sts @maristofeli @v1ridien @strawberrycowgirly if yall want !!

[bohemian-rhapsody-in-blue]

all of your princess bride reblogs are making me so happy im so glad you like my favorite movie

I love it!! I watched it with @smithasandwich a few nights ago and we both really enjoyed it—it was our first time watching it all the way through. I’d previously only seen it intermittently (on the bus during a long field trip with my high school orchestra) or partway through (with my mom while she visited my college). I’m so glad I finally had a chance to see the full thing and see where all the famous quotes, lines, and memes come from—I think “I want my father back, you son of a bitch!!!” is my favorite.

My favorite thing about this movie is how it works perfectly as a hilarious comedy, an exciting adventure, AND a swoonworthy romance (can’t believe Westley and Buttercup invented love…or at least renewed the patent after Beatrice and Benedick). All those different genres and tones interact perfectly in that movie. I think part of this is because the plot is ridiculous and fun enough to be comedic, but the characters take it fully seriously and with total sincerity, and thus so do we—that’s how it can make you Feel Feelings. Sorry to “blorbo from my shows” this, but my favorite thing about one of my favorite Cowboy Bebop episodes, “Toys in the Attic,” is how it works so well as both a comedy (that draws from parody & pastiche and tells us more about the characters) AND a legitimately spooky horror episode. I’ve seen comments that say “this episode was so funny!” and “this episode was so scary!” and they’re BOTH right. The Princess Bride is the same way. I’ve seen it on lists of “greatest adventure movies of all time,” “greatest comedies of all time,” and “greatest romances of all time,” and they’re ALL correct!

You have good taste in movies, my friend!! (I think it’s also funny that I scrolled through some of your Princess Bride tag and, in one post where you shared something for “all your fandoms”, realized I’m now familiar with all of those fandoms—I’ve read Six of Crows, Red White and Royal Blue, and The Song of Achilles, and now I’ve watched The Princess Bride, too!) Thanks so much for the ask, and I’m glad I could make you happy!!

[tiffanyachings]

my dear lady disdain, an energetic mix for two quarrelling fools in love (listen)

tracklist: (1) our perfect disease - the wombats // (2) she’s so mean - matchbox twenty // (3) i’m always right - the pigeon detectives // (4) sweet as whole - sara bareilles // (5) carried away - passion pit // (6) kill the director - the wombats // (7) lone ranger - rachel platten // (8) everybody talks - neon trees // (9) juliet - LMNT // (10) she’s killing me - a rocket to the moon // (11) locked up - ingrid michaelson // (12) i stand corrected - vampire weekend // (13) i won’t say (i’m in love) - susan egan // (14) talk too much - COIN

[sonseulsoleil]

anyways the version of much ado about nothing starring catherine tate and david tennant as beatrice and benedick is a Classic. david tennant’s benedick is FULL chaotic dumbass, and catherine tate’s beatrice is past being full of rage and is completely done with everyone from the very beginning. plus, they just work off each other so well. 

not to mention the costumes and props. benedick in drag? BENEDICK IN JORTS AND A SUPERMAN SHIRT? beatrice wearing a suit? beatrice swaggering around with a beer in her hand, while benedick sips on pink, fruity cocktails? benedick writing his love song to beatrice on one of those stupid little electric keyboards? unparalleled artistry. 

[forthegothicheroine]

Favorite Fic I Wrote from 2021

Why not be a little self-promoting here?

Experiment 823: Maximum Overdrive (MST3K): Mike and the Bots are subjected to one of my favorite bad movies, and reenact an infamous scene involving Stephen King and an ATM.

Not a People-Pleaser (The Good Place): In which Eleanor must step up to the role of being humanity’s Queen Esther.

Princess of Orkney (The Once and Future King/Arthurian Legend): Another Ester fusion! TH White’s fascist version of Mordred encounters some difficulty from his sister in law Ragnell. I’m proud of the backstory in this one!

Death is Not the End, Episode 19: Lovely Creature (The Kindness of Strangers - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (Song)): A fictional true crime podcast examines the murder of Mary Bellows, strange seaside sightings, and the dark ending to the leading suspect. ( I want Phoebe Judge to do the podfic!)

Another True Thomas (American Pie - Don McLean (Song): The Fairy Queen grants visions of music yet to come.

Jonathan Crane Plays D&D (Batman Comics): A fix-fic where the boy who would have grown up to be Scarecrow instead finds friendship and help the same way many teen outcasts did in the 70s. There’s still murder!

Thy Fearful Symmetry (Star Trek The Original Series): Uhura flirts with Mirror Spock, and it works far better than she expected.

Second Act Comedy (Much Ado About Nothing/Romeo and Juliet): A visit to Beatrice’s cousins the Capulets results in her and Benedick getting caught in yet another love scheme.

She could easily work a miracle or two (Arthurian Legend): Galahad, daughter of Lancelot, just wants to help everyone if they will let her.

What I Know (The Wicker Man 1973): A woman who spent her childhood in the Summerisle cult tries to piece together what exactly she witnessed.

[siena-sevenwits]

Thanks for tagging me, @saxifrage-wreath. I know you tagged me as @thewatercolours, but I am going to post here on my personal, general blog.

Currently reading: The Idiot by Dostoevsky (classic), The Book of Genesis (and listening to Fr. Mike Schmitz's excellent Bible in a Year podcast) (scripture), rereading Dorothy L. Sayers' "Man Born to Be King" cycle (scriptural drama), and "Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell" by Brandon Sanderson (fantasy.) Recently finished Adorning the Dark and The Goblin Emperor.

Last song: "Into the Woods" by Stephen Sondheim, from the 2014 film soundtrack, which I heretically prefer to the original Broadway cast recording.

Last film: "Into the Woods" - see above. It was a gloriously beautiful, atmospheric film, with a quality cast who could actually sing, and had a lovely melancholy touched with humour to it. Tough I wasn't a fan of the stepsisters' costumes.

Currently watching: I love Korean historical dramas, so I was excited to start watching a new one tonight, but so so disappointed in how immature it was that I didn't even extend it the grace to get past the first episode, and am not even going to mention its name.

Three ships: I don't do much in the way of active shipping fandom, and it feels difficult to narrow down the many fictional couples I've loved in literature, but off the top of my head, I'll say...Tommy and Tuppence from the works of Agatha Christie, Adolin and Shallan from The Stormlight Archive, and Beatrice and Benedick from Much Ado About Nothing. Ask me tomorrow, and I'd name a completely different set.

First ever ship: Um... I don't know? Rodolfo and Mimi from "La Boheme" by Puccini?

Currently consuming: Nothing, but I love a cup of Monk's Blend, or Earl Grey, or Jasmine.

Currently craving: Fortitude to keep writing my novel.

4 songs on repeat:

"Beautiful Night" by The National Parks, "Man's Road" by Ernesto Villareal, " "New Year" by Regina Spektor, "Runaway" by Aurora

[basmathgirl]

Rules: Tag 9 people you’d like to know better. 

I was tagged by the beautiful & talented @ageless-aislynn ♥!

Top 3 Ships: Ten/Donna, Aziraphale/Crowley. Beatrice/Benedick (although any Tatennant pairing will do)

Last song:  a busker’s version of “Perfect” by Ed Sheeran

Last movie: “Men In Black: International” (it’s just appeared on Sky Movies)

Reading: I’ve been reading loads of romance (latest is “My Best Friend, the Billionaire” by Serenity Woods) and Terry Pratchett’s books featuring witches; all free thanks to the Essex Library Service, Amazon Prime Reading, and Prolific Works. 

Three Random Things that Make Me Happy: My youngest son introducing me to yet another TV show to laugh/cringe over together, staying home safe, and getting some fanfiction writing done.

Tagging: @giff4088, @ashdrake02, @myrklin, @widevibratobitch, @graaaaceeliz, @auntiezeldas, @escapingthoughtsandsecrets @catsladen, @proudweirdaspie

[bella-donna-energy]

Happy Saint Valentine in advance! 💝😊 3, 16, 24, 26, 35.

3. favorite love song?

It’s a tie between Kiss Me by Sixpence None the Richer and Leather & Lace by Stevie Nicks

16. favorite love story?

Oh gosh how to choose one love story? Out of all of creation? All of fiction? How?! I think, since I just watched a production of it this weekend, I have to go with Beatrice and Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing. The way they match wits, challenge each other, hide their hurt behind venom but undeniably care about each other, the story that they weren’t in the right places in their life to make it work the first time, but now they’re older and ready to grow together. It’s a joy to watch. And ever since watching it I’ve been obsessed with the lesbian version that exists in my head and how I would direct it.

24. what makes you blush?

Compliments of any sort 😅 I have no idea what to do when people compliment me

26. do you believe in soulmates?

I’m with you on this one—I think there are lots of people we’re meant to meet and love in many different ways during our lives who will help us grow. But we’re tumblr soulmates forever 😘

35. would you prefer to propose or be proposed to? what’s your dream proposal?

I’d definitely prefer being proposed to! I honestly haven’t thought much about my dream proposal, but I would probably like it to be during an evening walk in a park after a nice dinner or something. Peaceful and simple and romantic.

[lizardrosen]

WIP meme

tagged by @eirenical

Make your own post, and post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it!

Tagging: @all-mimsy, @trans-peridot, @suits-of-woe and @butchhamlet, and of course if you'd like to do this, then consider yourself tagged!

bold of you to assume i have a dedicated WIP folder, but let's see what we've got! many of these are just word docs for a specific fandom, and i put a bunch of little snippets all together without titles, and many of those snippets will never be posted anywhere. and it's going under a cut because there's a ton

Miscellaneous

Arendelle

Blood Like Glitter

Cinna

Dorian Gray

Flutter

Go big or go extinct

Kit Kat

Leap of Faith

Metaphorical Resonances

Princess Tutu

Silent Seas

Tangled

The Awakened Mermaid

Umineko

Walls

WCKD Is Good

Welcome to Disc Vale

When the Fire Nation Attacked

Doctor Who

Always

Awful Lot of Running

Donna Nine Pilot

Question Theories

Three Rights Make a Left General Notes

Three Rights Make a Left Season Outline

Friends at the Table

Red Jack

Restless

Perforated

Rain Mode

Good Omens

The Constancy of Water

I Want to Break Free fanvid

Split Reality AU

Revolutionary Omens

Les Mis

SINGING THE SONG OF ANGRY MEN

resurrection?

Gray Is Okay

brietbart online

"Please Come Inside"

Friendlier Skies

Narnia

Gallivanters

once a king or queen

Theory of Narnia

To Fill Different Lives

Pathologic

Cruel Light (space opera)

No Mere Auditor

Pathologic Micro Fic

Seafaring AU

Things of Small Value

When the Head-s Full of Snow

Revolutionary Girl Utena

Take My Revolution

The Sunlit Garden

Violet Surprise

Star Trek

Ghosts

Genesis of Horror

The Frenemy Within

Beam Me Up Grantaire!

Trek Misérables

Things To Do With Your Space Boyfriend

Uhura

Bonus because i published this one but really like the working title Land of Wastes (Les Mis)

Star Wars

There Will Be Light

Qui-Gon lives (and somehow everything is worse??)

Obi-Wan after Revenge of the Sith

Putting all the Shakespeare plays together for convenience!

Hamlet

Is There Not Rain Enough

think of us as of a father

your drunken kisses as light as the air

almeida rey/laertes

Despised Love

Bonus Horatio

Truant Disposition

fennel and columbine

not all the world

I'th'church

hollow knight

hear you, sir

spendthrift sigh

dumpling fic

Horatio/Fortinbras

Melt Thaw and Resolve Itself

Foils

subspace

Claudia

Latin America Hamlet

Hogwarts AU

Changeling AU

The Good Place

Ohtori AU

D&D AU (ropefic)

claudius/laertes/oswald

Ariel

weaver of lies

double death

Othello

Female Othello

Evil Unicorn Temptress

Di of Demon Eyes

Twelfth Night

Fluidity

Adored

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Taymor Midsummer

In The Park

permutations

Performance

Much Ado About Nothing

Trans Benedick

demi beatrice

Lady Conrade

Romeo & Juliet

Playing Space

Dreamers Lie

Church doors

Man of Wax

silly things

Henriad

Henry stories

Follow thou the wars

TennisBalls

European Tour AU

As You Like It

Haircut

The Tempest

the land and sea's embrace; the land and sea's divorce

King Lear

Thunder

Nonbinary Edgar

presented nakedness

Shakespeare Crossovers

Moon Letters

Songfic

Ben-Mal

Directing Concepts

Madness Tips the Beam

Laertes/Benedick

Guil/Edmund

[gondalsqueen]

I think I like Much Ado About Nothing so much not only because it’s about a charming, sassy, smart, power couple working for the good of the people around them, but also because it is, at its heart, a hurt/comfort fic:  BEATRICE Is he not approved in the height a villain, that hath slandered, scorned, dishonoured my kinswoman? O that I were a man! What, bear her in hand until they come to take hands; and then, with public accusation, uncovered slander, unmitigated rancour, --O God, that I were a man! I would eat his heart in the market-place. 

...

BEATRICE Princes and counties! Surely, a princely testimony, a goodly count, Count Comfect; a sweet gallant, surely! O that I were a man for his sake! or that I had any friend would be a man for my sake! But manhood is melted into courtesies, valour into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones too: he is now as valiant as Hercules that only tells a lie and swears it. I cannot be a man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving. BENEDICK Tarry, good Beatrice. By this hand, I love thee. BEATRICE Use it for my love some other way than swearing by it.

BENEDICK Think you in your soul the Count Claudio hath wronged Hero? BEATRICE Yea, as sure as I have a thought or a soul. BENEDICK Enough, I am engaged; I will challenge him. I will kiss your hand, and so I leave you. By this hand, Claudio shall render me a dear account. As you hear of me, so think of me. Go, comfort your cousin: I must say she is dead: and so, farewell.

AND:  LEONATO Canst thou so daff me? Thou hast kill'd my child: If thou kill'st me, boy, thou shalt kill a man. ANTONIO He shall kill two of us, and men indeed: But that's no matter; let him kill one first; Win me and wear me; let him answer me. Come, follow me, boy; come, sir boy, come, follow me: Sir boy, I'll whip you from your foining fence; Nay, as I am a gentleman, I will. LEONATO Brother,-- ANTONIO Content yourself. God knows I loved my niece; And she is dead, slander'd to death by villains, That dare as well answer a man indeed As I dare take a serpent by the tongue: Boys, apes, braggarts, Jacks, milksops! LEONATO Brother Antony,-- ANTONIO Hold you content. What, man! I know them, yea, And what they weigh, even to the utmost scruple,-- Scrambling, out-facing, fashion-monging boys, That lie and cog and flout, deprave and slander, Go anticly, show outward hideousness, And speak off half a dozen dangerous words, How they might hurt their enemies, if they durst; And this is all.

AND: 

BENEDICK ...and now tell me, how doth your cousin? BEATRICE Very ill. BENEDICK And how do you? BEATRICE Very ill too. BENEDICK Serve God, love me and mend. But if you still doubt it, you should listen to this song, which is almost entirely quotes from the play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YhHM1ybfPI

[phlaimeaux]

Hello!

I mentioned this on the ISOLATING podcast today.

Here is a six round quiz you can do with your friends/family/frenemies in person or over the internet/WhatApp. The questions are mostly from the amazing Louise O’Connor and I wrote some of the less good ones. Please go on Twitter and say thanks to her. She’s @oconnola.

You can use this quiz but the only rule is that you have make a donation to a charity that is helping vulnerable people at this time. In Ireland, good ones are Alone or Age Action. Please find a similar one in your country/area. And if you could ask the people who are playing with you to do likewise.

It’s one point for a correct answer plus a bonus of two if you can get the link that ties each round together, so the whole quiz is out of 72 points. Sometimes it’s easier to figure out the link and work backwards to get the questions.

The way I did it with my family was to use the main O’Doherty family WhatsApp. There are forty people across three time zones on that. I told them we’d be having a quiz at 8pm Irish time and to form teams and nominate a captain. In the end there were six teams and they could converse with the rest of their team across video platforms. At 8pm I cut and pasted the questions from round one up on the WhatsApp and gave them 10 (more like 15mins really) for the team captains to get the answers back to me directly . Then we moved on to round two. There was a threat of excommunication from the family if anyone cheated.

I corrected them and my Dad did the scores while they were deliberating on the next round and it was one of the most fun nights of the pandemic so far!

Good luck with it and let’s all just keep putting one foot in front of the other.

Let me know how it goes.

DO’D

ROUND ONE

1. Brazilian forward and politician Bebeto played for which northern Spanish club for four years in the 1990s?

2. What is the currency of Sweden?

3. Name the transparent front part of the eye that covers the iris, pupil, and anterior chamber, and provides most the eye’s focusing power.

4. What is the scientific name for the family of birds that includes jackdaws, rooks, ravens and magpies amongst others?

5. What number appears directly opposite 1 on a standard dartboard?

6. What is the Internet country code top-level domain for Colombia?

7. In anatomy, by what name is the crown on the top of the head also known?

8. Which song on The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan features a woman’s name twice?

9. Which brand regrettably launched its hard seltzer line in the USA in early 2020 with the tagline "coming ashore soon"?

10. Who is the lead singer of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs?

ROUND TWO

1. According to singer Edwin Starr, what is good for absolutely nothing?

2. The Pub Landlord comedy character is played by whom?

3. A rock group, record label or film not belonging or affiliated to a major record or film company is known by what name?

4. ‘______snipe,’ is originally Wall Street slang for ‘streetcorner broker.’

5. Which 2020 Democratic presidential candidate was the mayor of South Bend, Indiana?

6. What was Spike Lee’s film about murderer David Berkowitz?

7. Which international football team played with the letters CCCP on their shirts?

8. What was Lewis Carroll’s sequel to Alice in Wonderland?

9. In Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, what is the name of the Imperial troop transporter/combat vehicles that defend the ice planet Hoth?

10. French duo Air had a hit with ‘Kellie Watch ___ _____’ in 1998?

ROUND THREE

1. Ursula Andress appeared as Honey Ryder in which James Bond film?

2. After Romeo and Juliet, which character has the third most lines in the eponymous play? We never actually learn this person’s given name.

3. What 1994 Robert Altman film was shot on location during Paris Fashion Week?

4. Otto Octavius is the real name of which myopic enemy of Spider-Man?

5. Louise Fletcher won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of which character, the antagonist of a character played by Jack Nicholson?

6. An 1886 book by Robert Louis Stevenson investigates the dual lives of which two title characters?

7. What does assassin Leon call his work in the movie ‘Leon’?

8. What genre of song was first published in Tommy Thumb's Song Book, published in the 1740s? Subject material includes the destruction of a major thoroughfare in the English capital, an expedited order of a very special cake, and the threat of a tragic arboreal accident?

9. The term PhD is an abbreviation of which academic title?

10. Jackie, played on TV by Edie Falco, and Betty, played on screen by Renée Zellweger, both share what job in the title of their show and movie respectively?

ROUND 4

1. How are Athos, Porthos and Aramis better known?

2. Which 1991 film stars Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze?

3. How many countries of the world begin with the letter O (in English)?

4. As of 2020, how many times have Manchester City won the premier league?

5. On a typical dart board, which number is directly to the right of the number twenty?

6. How many claws does a rabbit have on its foreleg?

7. In Greek mythology, how many Muses are there? They are the daughters of Zeus.

8. Does a vein carry blood to or from the heart?

9. How many players are typically on a volleyball team?

10. How many countries are permanent members of the UN security council? They are also the only countries with a veto.

ROUND 5

1. What denotes the letter C in the NATO alphabet?

2. What is the surname of the central family in the sitcom Keeping Up Appearances?

3. A 'black light' emits what kind of light?

4. Which Louisiana general led the Confederate troops at the Battle of Shiloh in 1862 during the American Civil War?

5. Which rock group sang the 1988 number 2 hit, The Living Years?

6. What was first broadcast on August 1st 1981?

7. Which Roman emperor succeeded Julius Caesar?

8. What five letter word, beginning with G, refers to sloppy or sticky semi-fluid matter?

9. A Plantar wart is most commonly known as what?

10. Which (US) city hosted the 2002 Winter Olympics?

ROUND SIX

1. Which long running BBC music show is hosted by Jools Holland?

2. Which Shakespeare comedy features the characters Benedick and Beatrice?

3. Complete the title of this Duke Ellington song: ‘East St Louis ______ ____’ 

4. What breed of dog is or was a pet kept by, amongst others, Elvis Presley, Martha Stewart, President Calvin Coolidge and Sigmund Freud?

5. What is the chemical symbol for the element copper?

6. The sitcom Frasier was itself a spin-off of which sitcom? I hope everybody knows its name.

7. Which cereal, marketed in the UK and Ireland by Nestlé, features the cereal in question falling into a bowl with blue, red, yellow and green stripes?

8. Which condiment is made mainly of mayonnaise and finely chopped capers?

9. Constantinople was the capital of which empire, also known as the Eastern Roman Empire, until it fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453?

10. Which Australian musician’s singles include Chandelier and Cheap Thrills?

ANSWERS

Round ONE

1. Derportivo La Coruna

2. Krona

3. Cornea

4. Corvids or Corvidae

5. 19

6. Co

7. The corona

8. Corrina Corrina

9. Corona

10. Karen O

Theme: Coronavirus

Round TWO

1. War

2. Al Murray

3. Indie

4. Guttersnipe

5. Pete Buttigieg

6. Summer of Sam

7. USSR

8. Through the Looking Glass

9. AT-AT

10. The stars

Theme: Oscar Wilde Quote. ‘We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.’

Round THREE

1. Dr No

2. Nurse

3. Pret a Porter

4. Dr Octopus

5. Nurse Ratched

6. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

7. Cleaner

8. Nursery Rhymes

9. Doctor of Philosopy

10. Nurse

Theme: Heroic front line workers at this time

Round FOUR

1. Three Muskateers

2. Point Break

3. One

4. Four

5. One

6. Five

7. Nine

8. To

9. Six

10. Five

Theme: Pi

ROUND FIVE

1. Charlie

2. Bucket

3. Violet

4. Beauregarde

5. Mike

6. Teavee

7. Augustus

8. Gloop

9. Veruca

10. Salt

Children in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory/Willie Wonka

ROUND SIX

1. Later

2. Much Ado About Nothing

3. Toodle-oo

4. Chow

5. Cu

6. Cheers

7. Cheerios

8. Tartar

9. Byzantine

10. Sia

Theme: Ways of saying goodbye.