The George Quiz Mastermind Challenge

The third challenger was Lyndsey, and she did magnificently; i have gone on a bit about how impressed i was that she got 15 questions correct in only two minutes, but see for yourselves - this wasn't easy. The topic was Kate Bush, and the questions were as follows...

1. Where was Kate born on 30th July 1958?

2. What was the name of her 1980 album, which became the first by a British female to top the charts?

3. Which 1985 single was subtitled A Deal With God?

4. In 2005, which Sunderland band had their biggest hit with a cover of Kate’s “Hounds Of Love”?

5. What is the name of Kate’s only son, born in 1998?

6. Which Elton John song was covered by Kate on the 1991 album “Two Rooms”?

7. Kate Bush was signed up by EMI at the age of 16 on the recommendation of which rock star?

8. Which Bush song begins “I hear him before I go to sleep and focus on the day that’s been”?

9. In which year did Kate win a BRIT Award for Best Female Solo Artist?

10. What is the name of Kate’s brother who has played a variety of instruments on her albums?

11. What was the first single taken from the 2005 album Aerial?

12. Which song did EMI originally want to be Kate’s debut release in 1979?

13. What was the title of the Greatest Hits album released by EMI in 1986?

14. Which TV presenter played on Kate’s track “Sky Of Honey” on the 2005 album Aerial?

15. Which song won Kate an Ivor Novello Award in 1979 for Outstanding British Lyric?

16. Which Kate Bush song from her second album features the story of a pilot whose plane has been shot down?



Marvellous stuff, Lyndsey; can anyone possibly do any better?? Coming up...the lyrics of Pulp; "Only Fools And Horse" and Kenny Dalgleish. Oh, yes.