WELCOME to Superbrain 2007 - the North-East's toughest trivia quiz with a total of over £500 to be won. Below are the answers to this year's quiz.

1. Dawn French
2. Harry Hill
3. Uma Thurman
4. Jim Carrey
5. Will Smith
6. Suranne Jones
7. Anna Faris
8. Tea Leoni
9. Emmy Rossum
10. Emmanuelle Chriqui
11. 3-2-1
12. Stingray
13. The Girl from UNCLE
14. Blue Peter
15. Astro
16. Get Some In
17. The Equaliser
18. Grace and Favour
19. Jemima Shore
20. Starsky and Hutch
21. Porridge and Open All Hours
22. ER
23. Mastermind
24. Dougal and Zebedee
25. Cluedo
26. John Le Mesurier
27. Mind Your Language
28. Iris Moss
29. Blake and Tiffany
30. Do Not Adjust Your Set
31. Batman
32. Halle Berry
33. Daphne Honeybutt
34. The Avengers
35. Mr Freeze and Poison Ivy
36. Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle
37. Scream
38. Michael J Fox
39. Double Helix (the sequel to Helix)
40. Audrey Hepburn (following in the footsteps of Marilyn Monroe who had sung at JFK s 45th)
41. Snow White
42. Cocoa/Peanut/Bananas (the only three names given in the film itself)
43. Molly Ringwald
44. Natalie Portman
45. You ought to be in pictures (and parodied in Who Framed Roger Rabbit?)
46. Brigitte Bardot (playing Camille Javal)
47. Natasha Richardson
48. Jack and the Beanstalk
49. Kathleen Turner
50. Winona Ryder

 

1. Pam Ayres
2. Catherine Cookson
3. Edwina Currie
4. Vic Reeves (Jim Moir)
5. Sophie Dahl
6. Wendy Robertson
7. Colin Dexter
8. JRR Tolkien
9. Mary Shelley
10. Terry Deary
11. Dr Seuss
12. Belgian
13. Black Beauty
14. Sherlock Holmes
15. Ten
16. The Cherry (Sexing the Cherry – 1989)
17. Ginevra Molly Weasley
18. Artemis Fowl II
19. Oscar Wilde
20. Harry Faversham
21. The Nightingale
22. Ophelia
23. Christopher Marlowe
24. Lord Byron
25. Freckles
26. Queen Gertrude
27. Georges Simenon
28. Jim Hawkins
29. Goblin Market
30. Annie and Clarabel
31. The Admirable Crichton
32. Plum Cake
33. James Bond
34. Russian Revolution
35. Violet Elizabeth Bott
36. Alfred, Lord Tennyson
37. Hank Morgan
38. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
39. John Buchan
40. The Box of Delights
41. Beatrix Potter
42. H.G. Wells and Jules Verne
43. Katie Bell
44. Enid Blyton
45. Inspector Sholto Lestrade (in the MJ Trow novels)
46. Those of Samuel Pepys
47. Anthony Burgess (created ULAM for Quest for Fire)
48. Miss Havisham
49. Robert Burns
50. Augustus Gloop

1. Kate McCann
2. Amy Winehouse
3. Pervez Musharrraf
4. Anita Roddick
5. Benazir Bhutto
6. Steve Fossett
7. Gabriela Irimia
8. Nicolas Zarkozy
9. Matt Ridley
10. Barack Obama
11. Bust Supporter/Brassiere
12. Climb Everest
13. Kentucky Derby
14. William Hague
15. Shirley Bowes
16. Verity Walker
17. Niall Quinn
18. Keith Richards
19.Sparky
20. Leya (renamed from Gullitt – accept both)
21. Sweden
22. A Sea lion
23. The Durham Ox (Crayke)
24. Alex Ferguson
25. Agnes Armstrong
26. Faye Turney
27. Al Gore
28. The Sky at Night
29. Kylie Minogue
30. Naomi Campbell
31. Gnasher – Hairless Chinese Crested (both answers are needed)
32. Moira Cameron
33. San Francisco
34. MI5
35. Guinness
36. Ian Fleming
37. Newcastle under Lyme
38. York’s Town Crier/Bellman
39. Daniel Craig
40. Whitby and Pickering
41. ASDA
42. Ian Paisley
43. Fastest Illegal Driving Speed (172mph)
44. Katie Hopkins
45. Colin McRae
46. Durham Railway Viaduct (several others accepted)
47. Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form, Darlington
48. Tony Blair
49. Yorkshire Pudding
50. That of Jason Lewis

1. Rowan Atkinson
2. Jimmy Nail
3. Roy Chubby Brown
4. Bobby Shafto
5. Neil Tennant
6. Mike Neville
7. Will Hay
8. Grace Darling
9. Chris Donald
10. Joanne Froggatt
11. Andy Taylor
12. Byker Grove
13. Leyburn
14. Darlington Civic Theatre
15. Barnard Castle
16. RAF Goosepool/RAF Middleton- St-George
17. Andy Capp
18. Boroughbridge
19. Tweedy
20. Awa Maru
21. Blackberries
22. Ripon
23. Consett
24. Page Bank
25. Seaburn
26. Archery
27. Trevor Horn
28. Shildon
29. Marton (although Middlesbrough and Newton Aycliffe are equally correct)
30. The Pink Panther
31. David Mckenzie
32. Winston
33. Penshaw Monument
34. Stone Mason
35. Gooseberries
36. Blue Sapphire
37. Captain James Cook
38. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
39. Newcastle Brown Ale
40. Cauldron Snout
41. Sparkie
42. Arthur Brown
43. The Avro Boys (part made in the North-East – Pegswood Colliery Band was 1960)
44. Fourpence Halfpenny
45. Seventh
46. She Loves You (The Beatles)
47. Tudhoe
48. Stockton-on-Tees
49. George Orwell
50. A Pound of Butter

1. Mel B (Melanie Brown)
2. Lily Allen
3. Damon Albarn
4. Kim Wilde
5. Jarvis Cocker (Pulp)
6. Keisha Buchanan (Sugababes)
7. Bob Geldof
8. Samantha Mumba
9. Marie Fredricksson (Roxette)
10. Francesca “Frankie” Sandford (S Club Juniors)
11. Bow Wow Wow
12. I am the Walrus
13. Prince
14. Bad Manners
15. Feelin’ Groovy
16. Shampoo
17. Pop Musik
18. Apricot
19. Those of Paulo Nutini
20. Martika
21. Sheila E
22. Kate Bush
23. Donovan
24. Sherrif Fatman (In the Carter USM song)
25. The Kooks
26. Gloria Estefan (although she turned down the first four invites)
27. Glenn Gregory
28. McFly
29. Simlish
30. Madness (the singer being Suggs)
31. The Beatles
32. Careless Whisper (George Michael version)
33. Molly Jones (In Ob-La-Di Ob- La-Da by the Beatles)
34. Soft Cell
35. The Laughing Gnome
36. Tight Fit (Miss Wiggle 1984 was Denise Gyngell)
37. Einstein a Go Go (Landscape)
38. Supergrass
39. Pink
40. Esther Ofarim (sang in 63 and number one in 68. Celine Dion was 88 and 94 – a gap of six years)
41. Toy Soldiers (the Martika version, as a backing vocalist)
42. Madonna
43. Ghostbusters (Ray Parker Jr)
44. Tears for Fears (from Sowing the Seeds of Love – “Kick out the Style, bring back the Jam”)
45. Charly (by Prodigy – a sample of his voice)
46. Camouflage (in the Stan Ridgway song)
47. Joyride
48. Louise (Phil Oakey always said 1984 hit Louise was the continuation of the story from Don’t You Want Me)
49. The Smiths
50. Frankie Goes To Hollywood (Welcome to the Pleasuredome)

1. Roy Keane
2. Lewis Hamilton
3. Zara Phillips
4. Joe Worsley
5. Joe Calzaghe
6. Michelle Wie
7. Duncan Fletcher
8. Jessica Ennis
9. Richard Guest
10. Dario Franchetti
11. Maria Sharapova
12. Les Catalans Dragons
13. David James
14. Seve Ballesteros
15. Peeping Fawn
16. Surfing
17. Power boating
18. Barry Bonds
19. Oscar Pistirius
20. Sachin Tendulkar
21. Mark Philipoussis
22. T and T Williams
23. Chelsea
24. Joanne Pavey
25. Noriyuki Haga
26. Andrew Flintoff
27. Luis Firpo
28. Andy Robinson
29. Jack Newton
30. Tyson Gay
31. 1877
32. Paul Scholes
33. Canoeing/Kayaking
34. Muhammad Ali
35. Shane Warne
36. Michael Owen
37. Alinghi
38. Glenn Cunningham
39. Women s Javelin
40. Fabian Cancellara
41. Kevin Keegan and Rob Lee (both parts needed)
42. Nikolay Davydenko
43. St Andrews (Old Course)
44. The Rest of the World
45. Germany
46. Alastair Heathcote
47. Cricket (Snooker also accepted although the trophy ceased to exist in 2000)
48. Vincere O Morire! (Win or die!)
49. Eddie Eagan
50. Anil Kumble