Here we go with the music and literature questions - can you do 'em?

[handlemecarefully]

As before please take 5 minutes and no googling. You can confer with friends and colleagues.

1)In the Shakespeare play, who killed MacBeth?
2)Who wrote 'An Inspector Calls'?
3)Which author was the 2007 winner of the Booker Prize.
4)Which name never previously existed before it was invented by J M Barrie for the book Peter Pan?
5)What is the nationality of Agatha Christie?s Poirot?
6)Who composed the opera "The Barber Of Seville"?
7)Soprano is the highest female voice, what is the lowest?
8)In which year did Elvis die? .
9)Which TV Chef plays drums in the pop group Scarlet Division?
10)Which English composer wrote the evocative musical piece ?Lark Ascending??

I'm not sure about Q3, I liked it because it is topical but it may be too hard. Might substitute the Cranford question for it.

Hem hem torty, I meant 1977. Were you even around then

Damn - too late - but I did know them all except 9, and would have guessed at Jamie, probably.

No idea about the TV chef or when Elvis died -got the rest of them

I was marina, the grand old age of 1. Depending on which part of the year it was.

Just looked him up, he died 4 days after my 1st birthday!

I didn't know alto and contralto are the same so that is handy to know!

somebody stop that torty. I was a teenager OK

marina!

Tolkien died the very day I was born.

Ahhh I can only do the literature ones; can't do any of the music ones! More literature please!

As before please take 5 minutes and no googling. You can confer with friends and colleagues.

1 Don't know!
2) Don't know
3) Anne Enright?
4) Tinkerbell?
5) Belgian?
6) I was going to say Bizet. God, I know nothing about Opera!
7) Alto
8) 1977 - the year I was born!
9) Jamie Oliver?
10) No idea

1)In the Shakespeare play, who killed MacBeth? MACDUFF
2)Who wrote 'An Inspector Calls'? J.B. PRIESTLEY
3)Which author was the 2007 winner of the Booker Prize. ANNE ENRIGHT
4)Which name never previously existed before it was invented by J M Barrie for the book Peter Pan? WENDY
5)What is the nationality of Agatha Christie?s Poirot? BELGIAN
6)Who composed the opera "The Barber Of Seville"? ROSSINI
7)Soprano is the highest female voice, what is the lowest? BASS
8)In which year did Elvis die? .
9)Which TV Chef plays drums in the pop group Scarlet Division? JAMIE OLIVER
10)Which English composer wrote the evocative musical piece ?Lark Ascending?? VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

For later posters I included the answers in my post of 11.45 if you want to see how you did...

Q4 isn't actually true, entirely, though -- I remember a string of correspondence in Family Tree Magazine years ago where verious instances of "Wendy" had been found in the census records dating from before Peter Pan. But it's popularly believed to be true, and Barrie probably thought he was inventing it.

I know PortAndLemonaid. I'm going to reword the question inserting 'allegedly'

Actually I don't think Barrie did invent the name Wendy, he only popularised it. I think it has been found in a census that predates Peter Pan, but I'm not allowed to Google, so I can't provide a reference.

btw Elvis died 13 days after my 21st birthday - some of you are so young....

great minds P&L!

1)In the Shakespeare play, who killed MacBeth? MACDUFF?
2)Who wrote 'An Inspector Calls'? JB PRIESTLEY
3)Which author was the 2007 winner of the Booker Prize. DUNNO (THINK I SHOULD BUT I DON'T!)
4)Which name never previously existed before it was invented by J M Barrie for the book Peter Pan? WENDY
5)What is the nationality of Agatha Christie?s Poirot? BELGIAN
6)Who composed the opera "The Barber Of Seville"? MOZART
7)Soprano is the highest female voice, what is the lowest? CONTRALTO
8)In which year did Elvis die? 1977.
9)Which TV Chef plays drums in the pop group Scarlet Division? GORDON RAMSAY?
10)Which English composer wrote the evocative musical piece ?Lark Ascending?? VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

I thought Barrie did invent it - something about someone being his "fwendy-wendy"?

OK< promise I haven't looked at the answers, I only just found this thread!

1. Macduff (oh god I am going to do badly here)
2. PD James
3. Anne Enright?
4. Wendy
5. Belgian
6. Puccini?
7. Alto
8. 1987
9. Jamie Oliver

10. Elgar

Right let's have a look then... 5 right. Feeble!

1. Macduff
3. ? Enright
4. Wendy
5. Belgian
6. Rossini
7. Alto
8. 1977
9. gordon ramsey

10. Vaughan Williams

1. Can't remember

2, Priestly

1. Anne Enright
2. Wendy
3. Belgian
4. Puccini
5. Alto
6. 1977
7. Jamie Oliver